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Paul Solman and Thomas Friedman started out in business as editors of Boston's now defunct counterculture weekly, the Real Paper. There they learned, the hard way, their first lesson in management: somebody has to be in charge. They are not so naive any more. In Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon & Schuster; 248 pages; $13.95), the two examine competition in American business. The rise and fall of the Real Paper is but one of the case histories that they crack open to extract the techniques of corporate survival...
...members of the Economics Department called the spending freeze impractical and unrealistic. Benjamin M. Friedman, professor of Economics, said that the cap is impractical if Reagan refuses, as he vehemently did in the address, to apply the inflation-adjusted limit to defense spending. "Rhetorically claiming to have a solution is different from actually having an effect," Friedman said...
...equally savage blast comes from Michael Evans, chief economist for the Wall Street investment firm of McMahan, Brafman, Morgan & Co. Evans, a fallen-away supply-sider, blames high unemployment on the monetarist theories of 1976 Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, who holds that slow and steady money growth is the key to economic health. Evans charges that some overzealous Friedman followers believed that the money supply could be squeezed without harming the economy. Says he: "Those people are now proved to be nuts, and they're gone forever. That aspect of monetarism belongs on the trash heap of economics...
...Dick Friedman president of Carpenter an I could rarely talk to each other." Dean Johnson, one of the most active community organizers, said yesterday...
Yesterday, a crowd of about 150 including city councilors, state representa- tives and senators, and Gov elect Michael S Dukakis--listened as Richard Friedman tried to be together Parcel lb's long history...