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...Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...
...Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a course on manufacturing management is required for an M.B.A., and other courses are offered in robotics and manufacturing strategy. In the belief that dirty hands can enrich minds, students venture to shop floors in the Pittsburgh area and serve as field consultants. A total of 15% of Carnegie-Mellon's 1984 business graduates plan to go into manufacturing, vs. 1% three years ago. The university will soon offer a new degree, a variation of a master's in engineering, says Associate Dean Robert Atkin. It will be equivalent to an M.B.A...
Such deductible investments have become a headache for the Internal Revenue Service. In all, they represent investments of an estimated $50 billion and can cost the Government billions of dollars annually in uncollected revenue. They help swell the federal deficit, enrich tax lawyers and arouse the ire and envy of less-well-to-do taxpayers. Asked what his four biggest problems are, Roscoe L. Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is fond of saying, "Tax shelters, tax shelters, tax shelters and tax shelters...
...worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. Terms comes to at least glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter...
...kind of society Reagan is building won't be able to support a strong foreign policy," he says. "I know what view of society animated Reagan. He says to a certain class of Americans, I am your President, enrich yourselves. It's a kind of conservatism without moral obligation, a rapacious self-enriching doctrine...