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...since the 1930s, the new programs surged in popularity during the past decade. Faced with a massive loss of business to aggressive global competitors such as Japan and Germany, U.S. companies rushed to control labor costs and raise productivity. The new plans help on both fronts, because firms that adopt them typically pay ! employees bonuses only when they meet production targets or when corporate earnings rise. Moreover, companies often combine the programs with other approaches -- such as encouraging shop-floor teams to plan and carry out projects -- that help give employees a sense of pride and participation in their work...
...applaud -- with one hand, anyway -- the multiculturalist goal of preparing us all for a wider world. The other hand is tapping its fingers impatiently, because the critics are right about one thing: when advocates of multiculturalism adopt the haughty stance of political correctness, they quickly descend to silliness or worse. It's obnoxious, for example, to rely on university administrations to enforce P.C. standards of verbal inoffensiveness. Racist, sexist and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's -- or, excuse me, woman...
Gelb concluded that the United States should adopt a greater domestic focus than in the past, cautioning the audience that victories in foreign policy are often escapes for leaders from domestic troubles...
...those things was to ensure passage by Congress of a strict food- labeling bill, sponsored by Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California. When it appeared that the bill would be shunted aside last year, Sokolof paid a total of $650,000 for full-page ads urging Congress to adopt the measure. Then, concerned that Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah was delaying its passage by tacking amendments to the Senate version of the bill, Sokolof ran ads in the Washington Post, the Washington Times and all the Utah dailies. "Senator Hatch," the ads read, "please cease your attempts to alter...
Then why were U.S. doctors so quick to adopt the medication? For one thing, cost is still not a primary concern for many U.S. doctors. In Canada and Europe, where cost constraints and rationing of health care are a matter of course, TPA did not enjoy great success; streptokinase plus ordinary, cheap aspirin remain the standard anticlotting therapy. In addition, pervasive fears of malpractice suits in the U.S. add to the pressures on doctors to use the latest technique...