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...mate to inform him of it. On his seeing the whale he instantly gave me an order to put the helm hard up. I had scarcely time to obey the order, when I heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale had struck the ship with his head under the larboard fore chains at the water's edge with such force as to shock every man upon his feet...
Though the Administration, for now at least, has the public solidly behind it, too much deregulation zeal could backfire. Many of the Government rules were written because of serious problems of polluted rivers, foul air and dangerous workplaces. The public opposed excessive and petty rule making, but it does not now want consumer products that maim or injure buyers...
...wife of Detroit. The body of Mercer's stepson Bernal Johnson, 21, was found in a Philippine river on April 24, two days after he escaped from a CCU at the Subic Bay Naval Base. An autopsy showed "possible marks of violence" around the neck. Mercer suspects naval foul play: "My son was a good swimmer, unless he was pushed into the water unconscious...
...rascally Gelnhausen. The discredited young man takes his leave, boldly promising the group that some day he will write a book: "But let no one expect mincing pastorals, conventional obituaries, complicated figure poems, sensitive soul-blubber, or well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken . . . but always drawn from the casks of life...
...ethics really be taught in a business school? Is it as simple as not paying bribes, or is it a tangled problem of trade-offs between lost jobs and foul air? Or does it go still further? At the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, which has perhaps the best M.B.A. program in the South, such questions can arise unexpectedly in one of Associate Professor William Zierden's classes on organizational behavior. The problem: a conflict between an aggressive supervisor and a truculent employee. Should the supervisor be fired, or the employee? Or what...