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Beyond its immediate marketing problems, Chrysler faces a more general need to change directions. Alone of the Big Three, the company has never really nurtured a specific vision of the kinds of consumers it hoped to reach. Its customers tend to be older, less affluent and more conservative than those of Ford or General Motors. The Omni/Horizon, Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car, is a promising breakthrough, but Chrysler still faces a changing marketplace with limited financial resources...
...contain substances which confer immunity on the infant and protect him from infections, and that infant formulas do not contain these substances. A study published last year in the prestigious Journal of Pediatrics showed a significantly lower rate of infections in breast than in bottle fed infants, even in affluent Cooperstown, N.Y. The American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that "Breast feedilng is strongly recommended for full term infants," and that "ideally, breast milk should be practically the only source of nutrients for the first four to six months for most infants...
Wojtyla wrote last year that Jesus Christ is "a reproach to the affluent consumer society ... The great poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism?all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist...
...feel bitter about what they see as Harvard's undeserved limelight. Nevertheless, phone calls continue to pour into University Hall requesting information on the Core. Schools as unlike Harvard as the University of Tampa and the University of Puget Sound are considering core curriculums. As Riesman notes, "The affluent started out wearing blue jeans, and now it has caught up with the blue collar." Ah, the vicissitudes of fashion...
Times Co. executives may find their Ochs gored by some of the issue's sharper satire, notably a heavyhanded mock ad from union-battling J.S. Stevens Co. about why organized labor is bad for business, and a "Man in the News" profile of an impossibly affluent pressman. But for the satirists it was mostly a labor of love. As Rusty Unger denied saying, "We all missed the Times so much that we had to make...