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...million budget. She is capable of denying her husband the time or the equipment he needs for one of his on-set brainstorms. When he insisted on a laser scanner for the picture's first sequence, she made him pay for it himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn't know such a creature existed. She was like a unicorn . . ." "Except that they like unicorns," she cuts...
Moreover, some of the qualities that Americans love in Iacocca the gruff, can-do businessman might work against Iacocca the presidential candidate. Could a hard-driving corporate titan, accustomed to speaking his mind and having his way, cope with the subtleties and compromises of American realpolitik? The draft-Iacocca boosters may underestimate the depth of his lifelong love affair with the auto business. He adores the nuts and bolts of it, the marketing strategies, the finite way in which success (or failure) is easily measured. With Chrysler on the rebound, Iacocca harbors impossible dreams of driving his company past Ford...
...charges that venal managers at NASA deliberately decided to ignore known problems that endangered the shuttle astronauts. But to cope with its unfamiliar duties in operating a dual-purpose passenger and cargo service, NASA created a decentralized structure that the Rogers commission is expected to criticize. Its headquarters in Washington lost effective control of its operational arms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying...
...last six years, Harvard has had to cope with an increase in undergraduate complaints of sexual harassment, which only recently has been recognized, by Harvard and the world, as misconduct subject to official censure. In the last five years, Harvard has created at least three committees, one within the College administration, one for the College's disciplinary board and one for an academic department, whose purpose is to raise awareness of and work to combat sexual harassment on campus...
Harvard Orator Rosen plans to speak on thelegacy of the Puritans. "The speech talks aboutthe Puritan legacy and how the students of the1980s are trying to cope with the burden of the1960s," said Rosen, who will deliver a modifiedversion of the speech at the 350th celebrationthis fall...