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Some of the bad habits belong to labor: wage increases not based upon increases in productivity mean higher prices, lower sales, fewer jobs. "The pattern of spectacular competitive wage increases is relatively new in American labor. It arose after 1946 because of special postwar conditions...
...into comfortable conformities. But that gentling will be one thing for the man who can remember a time when in his freedom he questioned and challenged and criticized-a different thing from the gentling of a man who from the beginning, driven by family practicalities, has been seeking the pattern that he might conform...
This year U.A. plans to release 36 major features at a cost of $60 million. The fact that U.A. is betting so much money worries Krim-but not for long, because he thinks the pattern set by U.A. cannot miss. Says he: "We're in a growth industry...
...Crimson's batting performance, however, will probably prove the game's key factor. Ever since the regular season opened, local hitting has shown a pattern of disturbing irregularity: in every alternate game the Crimson hits column reaches double figures, but in between the varsity can never muster up more than five safeties per game...
...enough facts to be entirely sure of his position. "If all these facts were cross-verified, I might be all wrong," he frankly admits. "My description does not even apply to all of those who voluntarily leave. My ideas represent an over-simplified syndrome, the quintessence of the behavior pattern," he adds...