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...Associates is a Madison Avenue firm so non-M that its partners think flagpoles are for flags and not (in admen's lingo) for running up ideas to see who will salute. Moreover, the Saudek people consider the word wise an adjective rather than a suffix (as in "Impact-wise, it's terrific"). And they never write memos, preferring to speak to one another in fogless civilized conversation. Their offices, quiet as the board room at Morgan Guaranty Trust, belie the nature of their business. Saudek Associates is just about the best and most versatile packager...
...impact was thunderous, but no more so than thousands of other collisions that occur on the nation's gridirons every fall weekend. But astonishingly enough, the players recorded a reading of 50 g.-well over twice the amount most people think a human can tolerate...
...form after a knee injury earlier this season and second only to Penny on the proud U.S. team. Hunched low over her skis, cutting corners like a man, Betsy looked the fastest of the day as she shot out of the schuss. Then she hit the bump. The impact slammed her into Airplane's bank so hard that she caught an edge, arched through a double cartwheel, fell on a ski point and lay still...
...stock market was a matter of concern last week not only to harried investors but to businessmen worried about the impact of its slide on U.S. business psychology. In a week of wild gyrations, it plummeted as much as 12.2 points in a few hours, bounced back up again, roller-coasted through the week. At week's end the market was down to 622.23 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in five months...
...corporation is a modern leviathan that has greater impact upon the lives and fortunes of Americans than any other force outside Government. The 500 largest U.S. corporations embrace nearly two-thirds of all nonagricultural economic activity, employ one in every seven U.S. workers, wield massive economic power over the whole U.S. economy. How are corporations using that power? What problems has it created...