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...smooth. The consummate car guy has repeatedly extended and withdrawn his favor since 1978, when he arrived at Chrysler from Ford following his own bitter ouster by Henry Ford II. The first heir apparent was Harold Sperlich, who preceded Iacocca from Ford and developed the K-car line of compact autos that kept Chrysler alive in the early 1980s. Then came financial wizard Gerald Greenwald, also from Ford, in 1979. As Sperlich faded, Greenwald rose to become vice chairman. Just as he was approaching the throne, however, Iacocca plucked another Ford star in 1986, when he hired Lutz as executive...
...social compact was a joke: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us." As for savings, which are an economic statement of faith in the future, what was the point? To have more rubles with which to scour empty shelves or to stuff under the mattress? But there was also no point in complaining. The Ministry of Finance was, like everything else, subordinated to the Ministry of Fear. The ruble, quite simply, was the monetary manifestation of totalitarianism...
...studying a cultural map of the world would make the mistake of thinking Japan and the U.S. once came from the same place. The two belong almost to different universes. Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse...
Last November, Sony introduced its Data Discman, a $549.95 hand-held player that displays the text of books stored not on computer chips but on compact discs. Apple Computer chairman John Sculley has announced that his company will begin shipping a similar product next year. The advantage: CDs are relatively cheap and hold immense quantities of data. Among the 23 CDs currently available for the Discman is a single $40 item loaded with 150 classic works of literature, including the Iliad and Odyssey, the plays of Shakespeare, the complete Sherlock Holmes, and War and Peace. All that's lacking...
...term blind date may end up an anachronism. This week the communications giant is scheduled to unveil its VideoPhone 2500, a compact telephone with color screen and camera lens that allows callers to get an up- close-and-personal look at each other while they're conversing. Although video telephone conferencing systems have become almost standard equipment in the world of business, they come with a $25,000 price tag and require special operating networks. AT&T's home phone is expected to cost $1,500, and will plug into a standard telephone outlet...