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American carmakers last week had one eye firmly fixed on the cashbox and the other on Japan. As the seemingly endless flood of auto company losses continued, the Reagan Administration finally won an agreement with the Japanese government for a "voluntary" cutback of up to three years in the number of autos exported to the U.S. Meanwhile, Detroit was preparing for this week's launching of the latest answer to sluggish auto sales and the Japanese imports: the General Motors J-cars...
...what is most surprising is LeBaron's complete lack of introspection. He spends little, time questioning anyone's motivations--he never asks why students in their teens decide to give up their twenties for the grind of endless school and the care of dying patients. The psychology of his classmates is entirely absent. Conversations are included only to post straw men or to make points; they rarely give insight into the speakers. As far as LeBaron can tell, his classmates are there only because they are fourth generation HMS or the children of the faculty...
...from 250 colleges and universities in 46 states and 42 foreign countries. In a typical class, about 75 of them are corralled into a windowless amphitheater, and each takes a swivel chair and puts his name card on his section of a long curving desk. Then comes the work, endless work. The first-year student stays at his desk for three hours in the morning and 1½ hours in the afternoon while the different professors come and go. They teach all the required basic courses-finance, marketing, production and operations management-by the case method that Harvard pioneered...
...added that if civil rights were left in the hands of local governments, "the Bill of Rights would become a political football in an endless partisan game...
...sole right of an individual. "It is all demonology and to do with creatures of air." Ronald, sometime occult victor and sometimes victim in The Bachelors, observes, as the wheels of power spin dizzily about his head, whirring and clicking, bobbing back and forth with no point but endless effect...