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Thud. The 1,200 women greeted the remark with stony silence and a few muffled moans. "What did he really mean?" Polly Madenwald, the organization's U.S. president, whispered to the woman sitting next to her. The cave man reference, they concluded, reflected a Neanderthal outlook. "To me he seemed to be saying that the only reason we're here is to create families," said Madenwald, a Republican from Hillsboro, Ore. "It was patronizing and didn't address who we are. He was talking to a group of businesswomen from around the world...
Charles Brown, chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph, admitted that the decision had been arrived at "reluctantly" and might be considered a "cave-in." But the alternative would be more court battles and uncertainty and, said Brown, "we're anxious to get the decks cleared and eager to go forward." So, without further argument or appeals, AT&T announced last week that it had agreed to give up its historic Bell name and blue-and-white telephone logo. Federal Judge Harold Greene had ruled last month that the trademarks should belong to AT&T's local operating companies...
While Japan is by no means a closed society like the Soviet Union, which strictly limits access by foreign journalists to its citizens, it is, in the words of Managing Editor Ray Cave, "veiled in a different fashion, psychologically and linguistically." No matter how much time and effort Western journalists spend trying to understand specific aspects of Japan, they are rarely confident that the subject has been fully grasped. TIME'S editors were convinced that readers shared their own interest in Japan, and their own desire to view the nation in broad perspective...
...tariffs. They were, said U.S. Trade Representative William Brock, a "two by four" to swing against unfair subsidies and "a world system that is totally trade distortive, where governments intervene at will without any consideration of international rule." To many outsiders, though, the White House action looked like a cave-in to domestic pressures without consideration of the long-term consequences for international trade...
...jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response is inappropriate to today's social stresses," says Harvard Cardiologist Herbert Benson, an expert on the subject. It is also dangerous. Says Psychiatrist Peter Knapp of Boston University: "When you get a Wall Street broker using the responses a cave man used to fight the elements, you've got a problem...