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...change represents a fundamental shift in American values. Many executives, especially those in their 40s and 50s, still march to the company drum and accept transfers as a means of rising. But younger executives???and their spouses ?are revolting against the stress and insecurity of the mobile society. Their rejection of the onward and upward American work ethic echoes Pop Star Billy Joel's hit: "If that's movin' up/ Then I'm movin' out." Or, as TRW Vice President James Dunlap says, "There's a feeling that work isn't everything these days. You've got to stop...
What surprises many U.S. businessmen who have any knowledge of overseas markets is that the bribery revelations have so shocked Congress and the public. True, the Lockheed case has stunned even the most worldly executives???but more because of the size and clumsiness of the bribery, the prominence of the receivers and the potential damage to friendly governments than because of the fact of the payoffs. On a less monumental scale, these managers assert, dash, baksheesh, pots de vin, la mordida?in a word, bribery?is an ancient and accepted practice, necessary in many countries to get any business done...
They have arrived like a new immigrant wave in male America. They may be cops, judges, military officers, telephone linemen, cab drivers, pipefitters, editors, business executives???or mothers and housewives, but not quite the same subordinate creatures they were before. Across the broad range of American life, from suburban tract houses to state legislatures, from church pulpits to Army barracks, women's lives are profoundly changing, and with them, the traditional relationships between the sexes. Few women are unaffected, few are thinking as they did ten years?or even a couple of years?ago. America has not entirely repealed...
...freeze announcement, Meany seemed more than equal to the task. He denounced the plan as a "tax bonanza to American corporations at the expense of American workers" and called the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 35-man executive council into session to issue a detailed list of criticisms. Other union executives???notably Leonard Woodcock, whose 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers left the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fold three years ago?flew to Meany's headquarters in Washington to confer. Labor Secretary James Hodgson, the Administration's belated emissary, also stopped by to pay his respects. He was one of the few White House...
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