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...alone. Hammer set out in life to pursue a career in medicine but was diverted into business instead. In 1957 he bought Occidental, then a West Coast oil company with just eight nearly played-out wells. Though he originally aimed to use his purchase merely as a tax shelter, he got interested in building up what has become a globe-girdling enterprise with oil in the North Sea and Libya, an elaborate 20-year fertilizer deal with the Soviet Union and ownership in the U.S. of the Island Creek Coal Co., the nation's fourth largest producer...
...barons. Since World War II, this process has gone wild. Richard G. Darman and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. of the J.F.K. government school estimate that 40% of all decisions involving corporate capital investment now are determined by considerations other than profits or the best interests of shareholders and employees. Instead, the determining factor is Government policy; and it, of course, is seldom based on a comprehensive grasp of relevant economic facts. Sums up Dunlop in a masterly understatement: "We need to find better ways to work on the problem...
...when the neighbors found out that the engines in that plant might spew gases that could hurt their pets and children. And the state said Harvard couldn't have its engines and the University called its battery of attorneys in to fix the mess but they couldn't. And instead of talking to the community leaders, Harvard brought in its scientific experts to prove that it wouldn't hurt the people and sent its other experts to Washington to lobby for a tax loophole so the University wouldn't lose its shirt on a big gray hole in the ground...
...dolls. Indeed, in several of the scenes in which he does not figure, Moriarty remains quietly on stage left, observing the game as it is played out. But there are times when Richard should convey a demanic drive, should impress us with a larger-than-life size. Instead, we have a chap who becomes nauseated on seeing Hastings' severed head; who, on speaking the famous line, "Off with his head--so much for Buckingham" (written not by Shakespeare but harmlessly interpolated by Cibber in 1700), underlines the second half by kicking an imaginary rugby ball...
...other work in the canon shows more formally patterned structure and diction. Yet in this apprentice play Shakespeare wrote with unsurpassed gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...