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Since blame is an integral part of American culture (Where else do people point fingers for damage done by a hurricane? Where else, assuming current rates of growth, are lawyers expected to outnumber nonlawyers by the end of next century?), it is appropriate to assign blame for baseball's current mess. It clearly belongs to owners...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Tarnished Diamonds | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...rules will require companies to publish charts in their annual reports that compare salaries with stock prices. Companies will also have to assign values to the stock options that executives receive. Although the regulations will provide shareholders with more ammunition to fight what they consider to be unwarranted compensation, many critics say the new law doesn't go far enough. They want to give shareholders the right to determine the actual pay of top executives. Others want to get at it by limiting corporate tax deductions for excessive salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forced Disclosure | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Keep the current method of assigning classes to exam times. Divide each week of final exams into two groups--Monday to Wednesday and Thursday to Saturday--maintaining the distinction between morning and afternoon exams. Reserve one room for three days and then assign three classes to that room...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Under Examination | 10/24/1992 | See Source »

...kitsch, the glamour, the lies, the outrageous slander. However it is so overtly theatrical, a circus of the grotesque and iniquitous (is Ross Perot's campaign chief really named Orson Swindle?), that's it's hard to believe it really matters. When the candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway a public opinion which is unanchored...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...basic staff opinion of The Crimson is usually conceived by the editorial chairs, John A. Cloud '93 and Beth L. Pinsker '93, who generally assign specific staff of The Crimson then meets to discuss, debate, amend and then vote on editorials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Abuse of Editorial Policy? | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

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