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...most Panamanians, however, the Canal is a far more serious worry than the politics of the Torrijos regime. As a former member of the government put it: "The manicured lawns and flower gardens of the Zone, the 50,000 Americans with a better living, the old degradations and racial discrimination -these are the causes of this claustrophobic frustration we Panamanians suffer. I'm with Omar...
...Mitsubishi like to consider their workers one big happy family. The combine's 260,000 employees are scattered among 27 member firms that make everything from diodes to diapers, but they can sing the company song, vacation at company resorts and enroll in Mitsubishi-sponsored haiku-writing and flower-arranging courses. Yet for years Mitsubishi executives have stewed over an insult to the ideal of togetherness: some 80,000 Mitsubishi workers are unmarried...
...owns a van, and we cover any job within 100 miles." An equally succcessful member is Andy Nikolatos, 23, who comes from the Bay Area of San Francisco, committed armed robbery two years ago to feed his drug habit, and, now on probation, runs a $45,000-a-year flower business...
...Smith, editor of the business school magazine and a member of the ad hoc committee, is an unexpected result of continued discrimination. "A lot of bright women are in dull, repetitive jobs here, so they spend their spare time thinking up creative things." Among the things is a framed flower-bedecked watercolor sign reading TAKE A WOMAN TO LUNCH. It was a gift to Fleming from campus women, and now hangs in his office. The women also persuaded Fleming to attend several of their seminars, including a "role reversal" slide show. In the show, a male student who wanted...
...should have done it much earlier." Last week the court did find her guilty, but gave her only a one-week suspended sentence and a year's probation. Even that was considered a defeat by her supporters. Outside the courthouse, home-town friends each handed her a single flower in sympathy...