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...damage caused in the charged culprit's suite, the money will be of no use. Those tack holes aren't really going to be filled in. In reality, when you write checks to Harvard for decorating misdeeds, you are paying an arbitrary amount of money as punishment...
Most Applauded Corporate Response to a Disaster. After seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke quickly recalled 31 million bottles of the pain killer and offered a $100,000 reward for the culprit. His frank, decisive response won back customer loyalty, and is now a textbook case in public relations. Least applauded: Exxon's tar- footed response to its desecration of Alaska's shoreline...
Despite the poor shooting, defensive rebounding was Harvard's other big problem. The Crimson allowed 18 Black Bear offensive rebounds, most of which ended up in Harvard's basket. The Crimson's new defensive setup seemed to be the culprit behind this weak spot...
None of the therapists had treated her. Yet they speculated, according to the Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The psychologists also said he too needed therapy to help his wife. One even suggested that Dukakis resign his office (his term runs through 1990) to aid his wife's recovery. After the board acted, some of the psychologists said they had been misquoted or their remarks had been taken...
...same time, technology is breaking down the links that join networks to their affiliates, and is blurring the lines that distinguish big stations from small ones, and network affiliates from the country's 400 independent stations. The main culprit: satellites. By providing a relatively inexpensive electronic highway over which video signals can be transmitted, satellites have created a new industry of program suppliers that can offer local stations a broad variety of material once available only from the networks...