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Janice Lee '86, vice-president of the Asian American Association, said the purpose of the event is two-fold: "Not only does [this festival] allow the community around us to be aware of our culture, but it also allows the different Asian groups on campus to interact and get to know each other...
Integrating the newcomers into the fold will be no easy matter. Already plagued by serious budgetary troubles--last year's deficit was an estimated $2 billion--the Community will have to come up with an additional $1 billion annually to finance the membership of the new partners. The Community's creaking agricultural subsidy programs will have to deal with a 28% increase in the farming population, which will complicate an already critical problem of surpluses. Spain's government-subsidized steel industry will add to Western Europe's excess capacity...
Moreover, Iacocca likes getting his way in the world quickly and unambiguously. He is a bossy boss. Heads of corporations can fold whole departments, hire anybody they choose and, in Iacocca's phrase, shuck the losers. Presidents, on the other hand, are hemmed in, constrained by the Executive bureaucracy, checked and balanced by Congress. In the give and take of governing, Iacocca's virtues--frankness, boldness--might not serve him so well. "He's a man who wants his hands on all the levers," says White House Aide Craig Fuller, the Administration official friendliest with Iacocca. Could a President Iacocca...
...that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features...
Last week Time Inc., one of the nation's largest communications companies, announced that it would buy Southern Progress. The privately held firm will be purchased in a deal valued at $480 million. Along with Southern Living, the acquisition will bring into Time Inc.'s fold two other monthly magazines, Progressive Farmer and Creative Ideas for Living, as well as a book-publishing subsidiary, Oxmoor House, which markets how-to books and other illustrated volumes. Its authors have included James Dickey, Walter Cronkite and James J. Kilpatrick...