Word: firming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject: "Should 16 million Peruvians renounce the natural resources of three- quarters of their national territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm in conviction: "Though we don't understand their beliefs and some of their customs offend us, we have no right to kill them...
Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer firm, has often come under attack in the West for its trade practices. U.S. rivals have accused Fujitsu of a lowball pricing policy that keeps foreign firms out of the Japanese market. But last week a howl of protest went up in Japan when Fujitsu tried to carry out such pricing at home. The uproar occurred after Hiroshima's city government sought bids to design a new computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted...
...York for the summer and I was looking for a job in an uptown law firm," Minnesota junior Paul Richards says. "It seems that one of the partners in the firm was a Harvard alumnus and when I mentioned that I was from the University of Minnesota, he responded with a large grin and a 15-minute onslaught of ribbing about the game...
Clark's purely economic analysis of the disincentives for taking public interest jobs fails to recognize that finding a public interest job opportunity has never been as simple as dropping a resume in a firm's box at the placement office. While the newly established mentor program referred to by Clark will assist those who have come to the law school with a specific interest in legal services, those of us interested in government nonprofit agencies and private public-interest firms no longer have a centralized source of information...
Worst of all for Salomon Brothers, Michael Lewis, who was earning $225,000 a year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...