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...than ever before." At no time in the roughly 130 years that Japan has traded with the West have its applied arts been so influential abroad. "I've lived with Asian influence all my life," says Eugene Kupper, an architect and UCLA professor, but "today Japan is in the forefront. It's the most exciting it has ever been." While tradition clearly informs some of the best new Japanese design, the current creative burst is not primarily backward looking. Indeed, Japanese design seems singularly, giddily unfettered. Not only are architects and art directors in their 40s and 50s free from...
...companies are in the forefront. Merck & Co., a large pharmaceutical concern based in Rahway, N.J., invested $100,000 seven years ago to establish a day-care center in a church less than two miles from its headquarters. Parents pay $550 a month for infants and $385 for toddlers. Many spend lunch hours with their children. "I can be there in four minutes," says Steven Klimczak, a Merck corporate-finance executive whose three-year-old daughter attends the center. "It's very reliable, and that's important in terms of getting your job done...
...same time, the collapse of standards brings ethical issues to the forefront. Many Americans feel a need to start rebuilding the edifice, to re- evaluate the basis of public morality. In so doing, says Joseph Kockelmans, professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, "people may finally begin to take responsibility for their lives, instead of just being sheep...
...public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at the Tidal Basin with a former stripper) brought the issue of womanizing to the forefront. With the breakdown of sexual taboos in the 1960s, public discussion of such topics became more acceptable. At the same time, with the changing status of women, society has grown less tolerant of the macho dalliances of married...
...Harvard has not been in the forefront of the development of business ethics. The faculty at Harvard as a whole hasn't really integrated ethics into their courses. There are one or two people in the school who pay attention to business ethics," says Richard T. DeGeorge, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas...