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Project Explosion
F o u R M E N S I T Q U I E T L Y in the executive conference room of
the ABC Retailers of America awaiting the arrival of the chairman.
A slightly bald， middle-aged executive walks into the room， plops
his briefcase on the table， and pulls out a yellow pad. There is an
extra touch of arrogance in his voice as he begins to speak.
\"Our expansion strategies were all right for the early sixties， but
this is a new era. We need a new strategy， a new plan， a new
philosophy.\"
It is the winter of 1976， and business volume is picking up
rapidly from the recession. Such strategy meetings are being held
in one corporation after another throughout the country to plan
for what will prove to be one of the longest periods of uninter-
rupted expansion in modern U.S. history--the superboom of the
late seventies. Some firms are hesitant because of the close call
with financial insolvency in 1975. But ABC is one of the first to
switch back into the gung-ho philosophy that predominated before
the crunchmand soon most other companies follow the lead.
\"But， Mr. Chairman，\" queries an assistant， \"the last plan we
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