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...bitten by both the White House and State Department. Speakes complained that the significance of the review was overstated and Secretary of State George Shultz considered the pronouncement premature. While allowing that Poindexter, who holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, has a brilliant analytical mind, his critics contend that he is such a poor communicator that he cannot brief the Great Communicator in the big- picture, skip-the-details style that Reagan prefers...
...incentives motivate many employees, but others view computer monitoring as a throwback to 19th century sweatshops, where workers were paid according to their output. Today's version of piecework comes into play when employers set quotas that they want workers to meet under the new monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever to let the computer...
...achieve his political aims, Nakasone must contend with his adversaries within the L.D.P. In his quest for a third term, the Prime Minister will have to persuade the other factions to allow him to change the tosoku, or party rules, which currently state that the leader of the L.D.P. must move on after two terms as party president. Since the head of the majority party is also Japan's Prime Minister, this regulation would force Nakasone out of both positions when his term as party president runs out at the end of October. When asked whether he plans to seek...
YMCA officials bristle at owners' charges. Since its establishment in the U.S. in 1851, they contend, the Y has been dedicated to the spiritual, mental and physical health of the entire community. If fancy facilities bring in more wealthy members, well and good. Their dues help support activities for the less privileged. Notes Celeste Wroblewski, spokeswoman for YMCA of the U.S.A., the Chicago headquarters of the more than 2,000 branch organization: "Collectively, Ys are the nation's largest provider of child care; 71% of the youngsters come from families with incomes of less than...
...Hundred Flowers campaign to urge intellectuals to produce new ideas. Still, many Chinese are understandably leery of the Double Hundred campaign, as it is called. They have not forgotten how Mao first lured scholars into exposing their views--"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"--and then purged those who opposed his policies. One victim of the 1956 campaign was Writer Wang Meng, whom Mao purged as an "antisocialist" and sent into internal exile for 24 years. Deng's new Minister of Culture: none other than Wang Meng, who was appointed last month...