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Those who think issues should prevail in politics deplore any emphasis on personality. Yet personality and character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments...
The simple description sets up an atmosphere of repression and degeneration. The list of decaying physical objects and the emphasis on what lies hidden behind the gates, doors, and windows of these ruined buildings convey the mediocrity and frustration middle class life has imposed on the narrator much more effectively...
Another emphasis of the program is using computers to aid diagnosis and treatment.
The new emphasis on performance has made the pension business intensely competitive. Says Dave Williams, chairman of Alliance: "We're hired, fired and retained on the basis of our investment results." He admits that his company once lost Monsanto as a client after managing its pension fund for only...
The Yuppie prefers Aruba, Fiji or some presumably undiscovered inn, "only to find the dining room packed with M.B.A.s ordering cassis sherbet for dessert." Favored movies include Annie Hall (in fact, anything by Woody Allen), Casablanca (because of the ceiling fans), An Unmarried Woman (excellent footage of SoHo lofts) and...