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...oarsmen traveled to New Jersey this weekend to pick up their 18th straight Compton Cup with a five-second victory over second-place Princeton. Rutgers finished a distant third and MIT a barely visible fourth...
...would be to appoint younger chief executives. They would be more likely to look at long horizons and take the creative chances that would pay big dividends on some distant tomorrow. The median age of corporate chiefs is now 59, and so they are often driven to achieve short-term results. There is too much pressure for risk-free, sure and often modest success. Unless managers know?and the public understands?that they must be free to fail in some ventures or wait for the longer-term payoff, they will never take the daring step...
...been regarded as raw and risky, people accepted the system because it held out the promise that hard work and talent would lead to high rewards. Not everybody was created economically equal but, with the indefensible exception of some minorities, everybody had a full, free opportunity to prosper. Ever distant frontiers and ever brighter tomorrows created a nation of optimists, who believed that a rising tide lifts all boats. This was the U.S. social contract...
...Japanese variant of capitalism cannot be readily or precisely copied, except perhaps by a few Asian countries, because it is rooted in a homogeneous, hierarchical society with a not so distant feudal past. Changes are slowly taking place, but disciplined workers still display an almost mystical loyalty to their companies, and paternalistic employers reciprocate by guaranteeing job security. Leaders of business, banking and government are members of a unitary elite, and they have a snug relationship...
...occultation, a rare occurrence but an event Franklin said is very valuable for determining the size of distant planets and satellites, gives further evidence of the existence of Charon, which has not been officially recognized as a satellite of Pluto since astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory discovered it in July...