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...Epps' distrust of the company stems from the fact that all student salesmen and managers are officially independent dealers for Southwestern Earning all their money from commission, the students have to pay all transportation and room and board expenses themselves. Southwestern officials maintain, however, that the company's basic principle is to let students work for themselves "as independent businessmen and women." They contend that the company has followed this principle ever since it was established three years after the end of the Civil War. In the economically devastated South, "young men trying to make their way through college...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Southwestern Equation | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

...what may be his weakest point into a strength. Common sense tells most people that experience in a field is essential for success. In what we like to think of as a meritocratic society, people "work their way to the top" of their field. Not always so in politics. Distrust of career politicians is always latent, especially now: Lakian is playing on it for all he can. "I'm going on 40. [former Governor and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate] Michael Dukakis has been running for office since I was 19," he mentions frequently. He also takes great glee in reminding...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: No Experience Needed | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

...most closed corporations in the U.S. Said Negotiator Warren, after the terms of the agreement were announced: "We are going to have to learn to manage more effectively, more openly." Talks between GM and the workers had been hampered for months by the strong suspicions and distrust of company workers about management's intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Takes a New Road | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...analysts agreed that there were many factors, including China's distrust of the Russians still prohibiting a Sino-Soviet reconciliation. "The Chinese distrust the Russians more than we do." Fairbank said...

Author: By Deborah S. Kalb, | Title: Experts Doubt Soviet Appeal's Success | 3/26/1982 | See Source »

...issue of a liberal media has cropped up often in recent months because, it appears, of the weekly's growing distrust of the news coverage of the El Salvador war: Columnist Cliff Kincaid drawn an interesting parallel. "In terms of inflammatory media coverage and the fact that outside communist powers are trying to impose a Marxist- Leninist dictatorship on an independent nation, El Salvador is another Vietnam...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Reagan's Conscience | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

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