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...fact many of the alienated youths who join radical underground groups in Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps...
...policy have increased the reluctance to invest. Says Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Frankly, many companies just don't know whether to go forward with capital expansion plans because they have got no clear signals from Washington." A senior official of California's Bank America Corp. adds, "They are waiting to see what happens to the energy program, what happens to taxes...
...Brian Weber of Reserve, La., who was passed over for a Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. training program. Kaiser had signed an agreement with the United Steel Workers specifying that for every white given a craft, job, one black would also be selected. On Weber's motion, a district judge enjoined the agreement...
...newspaper researchers merely found out what kind of product readers liked and let publishers decide how to tailor it. The news doctors typically make specific proposals for reform, and tend to regard newspapers more as packaged goods than as public-service institutions. Says Donald J. Morgan of GMA Research Corp. in Bellevue, Wash.: "We look at the newspaper as a product, just as we would something from Procter & Gamble...
Funded by a $480,000 research grant from the U.S. Office of Education and $300,000 from the Allied Chemical Corp., Music was exhaustively researched for over two years to discover, among other things, what kids did and did not know about the subject. Its primary goal, says the WETA team, is to combat the lack of music education in schools today. "The state of teaching is at best haphazard," says Sidlin, who taught in public schools for seven years and has subsequently entertained young audiences at over 350 youth concerts. "In some schools now they must justify retaining...