Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready for a rumble in software. Lotus and Microsoft, the top independent U.S. producers of personal-computer programs, each announced plans to invade the other's turf. The battleground: the $400 million market for spreadsheets, or electronic business ledgers. Microsoft, which sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge...
...interns believe diligence is also rewarded. For those who excel, there may be a chance to empty the office coffee grinds. Kudos to them for reading the Far Eastern Economic Review over breakfast, just in case...
...study that will be published this fall by Sociologists Ruben G. Rumbaut and Kenji Ima of San Diego State University. They found that in overall grade-point averages, virtually every Asian-American group outscored the city's white high school juniors and seniors. Many Asian-American students excel in the arts, from photography to music. New York City's famed Juilliard School has a student body estimated to be 25% Asian and Asian American. Juilliard President Joseph Polisi rejects the view that Asian students are uniquely talented. "It's not just being Asian that makes them good musicians," he says...
...success, perhaps Confucian ideals that stress family values and emphasize education. Sociologist William Liu, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, argues that immigrants from Asian countries with the strongest Confucian influence - Japan, Korea, China and Viet Nam - perform best. "The Confucian ethic," he says, "drives people to work, excel and repay the debt they owe their parents." By comparison, San Diego's Rumbaut points out, Laotians and Cambodians, who do somewhat less well, have a gentler, Buddhist approach to life...
...prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in to government pressure, he admits that his initial refusal to negotiate was wrongheaded. "I thought they ((the union leaders)) were too young and inexperienced with company affairs to represent all the workers," says the 71-year-old Chung. "After I met with them personally, I found out I had been wrong...