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SCOFFLAWS DO BETTER At the beginning of the year, the state of California's ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants went into effect, as reported by Steve Lopez in our Jan. 12, 1998, issue. Since then, barkeeps who have complied say they are suffering financially and complain that bars continuing to allow smoking have been largely unpunished and are profiting nicely. In the first six months of 1998 there have been 408 complaints, but the city of Los Angeles has issued only three citations for smoking violations. Statewide, similarly meager enforcement is reported...
...businessman who mixed as easily with scientists as with corporate leaders, Sarnoff fought for patents and the right to advance the technology of the medium. Called ruthless by his rivals, he once said, "Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men." And when others would complain that his focus was more on technology than on programming, he said, "Basically, we're the delivery boys...
...Sony on the global radar had a nationalist side that was both contradictory and complementary. This you can sense in reading his best seller, Made in Japan, as well as in talking to him. When I would complain about the ambivalence, he'd grin and say, "Ohmae-san, it is the generation gap." A navy veteran, he returned from service to a Japanese economy that had been destroyed by the war, so for a long time he maintained a Japan-first frame of mind. His initial intentions were simply to make a contribution toward rebuilding his country from the ashes...
Once we are accepted to the University, it appears, we are forever and anon Harvard/Radcliffe men and women. We are part of the vast and powerful team. So why complain? What's the cost of membership...
...lockout to the trendy labor strife that has hung over professional athletics ever since Curt Flood and Marvin Miller helped bring us free agency back in 1974. We know-the players are greedy, the owners are greedy and the fans are underappreciated. Let them fight it out, let us complain and then let's play ball...