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...approach pays off in terms of hard cash. British unions have never been able to crack M & S, and the rate of absenteeism among workers is a mere 3%-less than might be expected from illness alone. Customers flock to the chain in such numbers that the company's flagship Marble Arch store in London was ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most profitable shop in 1977. The chain claims to take in one-eighth of all expenditures for clothing in Britain...
...have spread from Times Square and Hollywood Boulevard to even small towns across the nation, people dislike them. Fully 64% said that pornographic movies are morally wrong, and 59% said the same for advertisements promoting X-rated films. No less than 74% supported the view that "the Government should crack down more on pornography in movies, books and nightclubs." Of these 54% said they felt this strongly. When a similar question was asked in 1974, only 42% favored a Government crackdown...
...League (save Columbia) schools field squads, but Harvard won't get a crack at all of them initially because of the financial limits on traveling for a club-team...
...another crack...
...crack down on Congressional leaks, the House authorized its Ethics Committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the report's publication and discover who had leaked the report to Schorr...