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...crises of the 1970s and the Japanese challenge of the '80s, GM never put its heart into developing smaller, high-quality cars. It took a new division, Saturn, to develop GM's first winning U.S. small car. "When you're on top of the heap, there's a disdain for change, a disdain for new ideas," says Lawrence Hrebiniak, a professor at the Wharton School. "It just goes with the territory, because...
...belong on the opinion page of a newspaper. I'm not suggesting that The Crimson censor ideas--the paper should try to promote a lively and sometimes heated clash of views. But Mulkerin's piece represented less a view than an attitude--an attitude, I gather, of arrogant disdain and self-conscious display, of a writer carried off by what he can get away with in print...
Although the Harvard Alliance for Life has no official affiliation with Operation Rescue, the organization's president yesterday expressed disdain for the efforts of NOW and Students for Choice...
Brady, who sometimes seemed unschooled in public finance but had had long experience as head of an old-line investment firm, regularly expressed disdain for excessive public and private debt. Darman, meanwhile, was pressing for a "grand compromise" by which Bush and the Congress would agree to a package of spending restraints and tax hikes to bring the red ink gradually under control...
...Bush does not have an undisputed claim to evangelical support this year. Spokesmen for the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant group, complain that the President is squishy on certain issues. In particular, they disdain his reluctance to hammer gay-rights activism as some other Republicans do. Richard Land, head of the group's Christian Life Commission, warns that "it will take clear differences on values to get Southern Baptists to vote against two people of their own denomination. If you want to energize Southern Baptists, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure...