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...tally of the total number of signatures on the petitions was not available yesterday, but Justin Goodyear '95 said that between 80 and 90 people signed the petitions he brought to the Dunster House dining hall Sunday evening...
...definitely a great idea," said Justin Goodyear `95. "Dunster House has a wonderful tradition of successfully imitating popular game shows, and it certainly helps us to get to know each other better...
...executives. In a spate of books with such titles as Love and Profit and A Great Place to Work, these experts are pulling in the horns and preaching a gospel of full worker participation in running companies. Such thinking has already won converts at the likes of Ford, Goodyear and General Electric. The books stress cooperation over conflict. "To compete in the marketplace, workers and management must collaborate," declares Charles Garfield, who describes his view in Second to None. "It is in these collaborations that human ingenuity and creativity are best realized...
...most obvious ways for companies to make ends meet is to cut costs, which includes heavy trimming of the payroll. Over the past two years, Goodyear has pared its work force by some 6,000 workers, to 109,000. Businesses are also reducing overhead by cutting expenses and perks. Marriott, the highly leveraged hotel chain, recently instituted a salary freeze of up to one year for senior managers and three months for administrative and clerical help. Harcourt sold off its fleet of corporate jets and got rid of its chauffeur-driven limousines...
Helmut Kohl deserves credit for what is happening in Germany, but not quite as much as his occasionally bumptious demeanor suggests. He's in some danger of becoming the Goodyear blimp of the international diplomatic circuit, soaring above everyone from Houston to Zheleznovodsk, inflated with the self- satisfaction of a politician on a roll. He is that, of course, but he ought to be more. And less. The world is watching not because Kohl is leading his Christian Democratic Union into an election later this year but because his country is triumphing over two of the great curses of this...