Word: broads
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...same scrutiny as the White House, virtually any human organization-corporate, academic or governmental-would often appear incapable of functioning. Yet the country goes on, and so does the White House. The more important part of leadership, as the political scientists point out, consists of articulating and advocating broad goals. This Reagan has done, despite staff arguments and upheavals...
...MacAvoy, 49, a former Yale professor and member of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that business-school teaching methods "have lost relevance to the real world." He argues that Harvard's famed case-study approach, in which students examine actual management situations, helped build broad knowledge but little feel for the gritty problems of running a plant. MacAvoy says students too often "get bogged down in the big picture." What is needed, he believes, are not generalists but specialists in fields like capital management. He foresees that as "the hottest topic in business education during...
Though computers solve a broad range of problems for many satisfied users, there are also many hundreds of lawsuits outstanding against manufacturers and sellers. Qantel Corp., a California-based manufacturer of small computers, lost a $5 million lawsuit last spring to a scientific systems firm that accused it of selling computers without the accompanying software. During the trial, the plaintiffs attorney described Qantel computers as "moron machines" that "won't do anything...
Neither of the Boks will name a favorite dish, claiming that Sternin's range is too broad Sternin, for his part, notes that his bosses' sense of culinary adventure is quite well developed, saying. "They'll eat anything I even tried out a Moroccan pigeon pie on them--and they loved...
...Harvard panelists, although supportive of Fujioka's broad points, expressed doubt over the legitimacy of the use of Japan and the small-industry "Gang of Four"--Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea--as "models for the developing world...