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From that blueprint grew the most radical twist in Saturn's labor agreement, one that is even more democratic than the Japanese model: the provision for consensus decision making. The Saturn philosophy is that all teams must be committed to decisions affecting them before those changes are put into place, from choosing an ad agency to selecting an outside supplier. "That means a lot of yelling sometimes, and everything takes a lot longer," says U.A.W. official Jack O'Toole, who oversees Spring Hill personnel, "but once they come out of that meeting room, they're 100% committed...
...five years ago, particularly among couples who make $50,000 and up. Many of the agreements not only spell out a division of financial assets if a marriage fails or a spouse dies, but also enumerate "life-style clauses," sometimes bizarre in their obsessive fine-tuning, that provide a blueprint for a marriage before it has begun...
...year, Wilson rebuffed student demands for a women's center with the excuse that she needed time to get acquainted with her new community before backing any major projects. Now she says the idea has "captured her imagination"--although she says it's "unwise to try to have a blueprint so soon...
STEROTYPES are frequently based in reality, but to use them as some sort of blueprint for people is unconscionable, simple-minded and dehumanizing. Very few politically conscious people would stand quietly by and listen to people extrapolate personal attacks from stereotypes. If I came from the inner city, who would dare ask me if my relatives were drug dealers? Or if I were from the deep South, would anyone ask which chapter of the Ku Klux Klan I belonged...
...arguing, "There are lots of things worth fighting for, but an extra 10 cents for a gallon of gas isn't one of them." Ted Galen Carpenter, director of foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, cautions that "making the U.S. the guardian of global stability is a blueprint for the indefinite prolongation of expensive and risky U.S. military commitments around the world." Edward N. Luttwak of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies even accuses the President of "fleeing from the intractable economic problems at home to a more attractive geopolitical role...