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...Harvard football team is not supposed to contend for the Ivy League title in 1987. The Crimson finished the previous year with a 3-7 overall mark. In the 1986 campaign, Harvard used a handful of quarter-backs before settling on Tom Yohe. The running game was a shambles. The defense did the best it could. But after the 1986 season, the defense looked like the sides of beef Rocky used to punch in meat coolers...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Last Year: Game Decided | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

What can be done to help U.S. companies gain global clout? Many business leaders and economists contend that major companies must be permitted to work together, in some cases to plot joint international strategies. According to economists like Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, U.S. antitrust laws may be out of date in an era when it is virtually impossible for one company to monopolize the world market. In Japan major companies work together and with government planners to a much greater degree. Says Motorola's Weisz: "We can't continue as a house divided against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Vs. Small | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...rush for independent testing angers some competitors and government officials, who contend that federal and state inspections provide ample safety. Not everyone is so sure. Fully 75% of the consumers surveyed in a Gallup poll last year said that pesticide contamination was a major concern to them. The National Academy of Sciences and the General Accounting Office have both issued studies that question the effectiveness of Federal Government & produce inspection, which typically samples only 1% of all fruits and vegetables sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Cleanliness Means Profits | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...private seal of purity may become a standard feature in supermarkets because the FDA is considering a policy that would require growers and retailers to take over much of the responsibility for testing their produce. Some grocers believe that higher food prices would result. But many experts contend that more widespread testing would encourage growers to use fewer pesticides -- even if it means that their produce will be slightly less perfect-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Cleanliness Means Profits | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...maintains that such deportations are illegal under the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer of residents from a territory occupied during wartime. Whitehead's rebuke, however, is unlikely to sway Israeli officials, who have already deported 33 alleged troublemakers in what they contend is a legal effort to quell the eight-month-old Palestinian uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Giving Them The Boot | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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