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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money and also be ethical when you are a student," he notes, but "it is much different in the real world." Kirk Hanson, who teaches ethics at Stanford's business school, finds many students apprehensive about the quandaries they will face. "There are a lot of pressures in fast-track environments," Hanson emphasizes. "I think they're afraid of the pressures and culture of Wall Street." But he adds, hopefully, "They're starting to think in advance about what kind of price they want to pay," with the implication that some may feel they do not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking to Its Roots | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...told me two weeks ago that we would have high-temperature superconductors that carry high currents, I would have said you were dreaming. Now if someone told me we will have useful devices made of this material next month, I wouldn't call him a dreamer. That's how fast this field is moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreams Into Reality | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Frazier approaches his subjects like a man who does not want to move too fast and frighten them away. In the title story, he decides to find out a little something about Ponce Cruse Evans, the woman who writes the syndicated column "Hints from Heloise." This involves, for some reason, driving from Chicago to San Antonio, where Evans lives. "In Muskogee, Oklahoma," Frazier confides, "I saw a Taco Hut, a Taco Bell, and a Taco Tico." Then he has to find a suitable motel ("I wanted a locally owned one") and assess his impressions so far: "I had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lallygagging Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...stealing has become easier than ever to pull off and to rationalize. White-collar workers are harried by competition, given new power by computers, tempted by electronic flows of cash, and possessed of a strong appetite for status symbols. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is fast becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw, his prodigal twin. The white-collar crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could lead to a fresh dose of the regulations from which many industries have only recently won freedom. Says Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having It All, Then Throwing It Away | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...naysayers were wrong. BMW Japan has carved a still small but fast- growing market niche for its high-price, high-performance cars. Since 1980 Japanese sales of the BMW have nearly quintupled, to more than 15,000 a year, making it the top-selling foreign car. Although the company declines to release its earnings report, it claims to have made a profit from the very beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying Hello To BMW-San | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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