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...finds that his father was with a woman when he died, and that the woman's daughter is in Rome too, on the same errand. You can take it from there, but you don't really have to. A third character--a friendly bisexual Italian parasite--serves as catalyst for most of the play's inaction, and as the subject of almost all its laughs...
...Chicago houses, the Spanish architecture of Santa Fe, Seattle's Pioneer Square, Old Salem, N.C., or even the sod hut that was once a post office in Killdeer, N. Dak. From its Washington headquarters in Decatur House, Biddle's National Trust not only acts as catalyst for such projects but also runs nine landmarks...
...Corporation will often accept risks of loss where other businesses could not afford to. Depending on the situation, the Corporation may or may not charge interest. And, if it sees "important community benefits," it is even willing to incure a loss. In short, Brooks described the Corporation as a catalyst to change within the community, letting the community decide the direction of change for itself...
L.B.J. & F.D.R. Or, with an election year approaching, L.B.J. might be inclined to emulate F.D.R., who picked a Republican, Henry Stimson, to head the war effort before the bitterly contested 1940 election campaign. Indeed, the war seems the major catalyst bearing on Johnson's decision-and raises the question whether Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who after seven years in so demanding a post must be as tired as McNamara, might not also be leaving soon...
...takeover, in large part because its officers and directors held too little of its stock-less than 1%-to put up much resistance. It accordingly began casting about for a partner more to its liking (one brief suitor was General Dynamics). Finally, with a Manhattan brokerage house acting as catalyst, talks were set up in Denver with Signal President Forrest N. Shumway. The critical decision to negotiate toward merger came in October in a phone call between Allis-Chalmers Chairman Robert S. Stevenson and Shumway, who was attending a Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind. Signal...