Word: willard
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Other scholars challenge the notion that corporate behemoths bring greater efficiency and lower prices. They assert that big firms, like governments, are more likely to become bureaucratic and complacent. Says Willard Mueller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin: "Large companies are not innovative. Hugeness destroys initiative." Indeed, during the past decade, two-thirds of all new jobs in the U.S. were created by businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Some of the most creative and innovative firms in America today, companies such as Apple Computer, Genentech and New York Air, are small, new corporations...
...when Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, dedicated Memorial Church on Armistice Day, 1932, the names of the 373 Harvard men who died for the Allied cause were handsomely inscribed in brass letters on the travertine tablets of the memorial room, directly below the spire. On the floor lay Harvard's insignia, on the ceiling the seal of the United States--E Pluribus Unum...
...Willard V. Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, said yesterday he signed because "the entire free world has a responsibility to resist Russian imperialism...
Critical because on the same day Reese--in a marathon performance--went four outstanding matches in consolation play. Highlights included Reese's defeat of Yale's David Barrett, followed by his defeat of Penn's number-one player. Brian Roberts. an exhausted Reese bowed to Tufts' Willard Bigelow in his final match...
Calhoun's comments came at a public forum addressing the impact of U.S. trade policy on American Blacks. Sponsored by the Harvard Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, the discussion included Clarence C. Ferguson Jr., Henry L. Stimson professor of Law and Willard R. Johnson, a professor of political science...