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Negotiators, Fisher tells us, should stick to issues, and disregard personality conflicts. They should focus on each side's real interests, not traditional positions. They should devise new options for mutual benefit. And they should rely on "objective criteria" in reaching compromises. Diplomats--of the household and international variety--who stick to these four rules can present "yesable propositions" to their adversaries, Fisher promises. But Getting to YES does little more than cite endless hypothetical examples showing the merits of those four principles. Obviously, diplomats at all levels should consider their adversaries' interests too; equally obviously, imaginative compromises...
...terrified residents search for protection, the region is beginning to be as armed as a military base. In the past five years, 220,000 guns have been sold in Dade County?an average of more than seven guns for every new household. So far this year, gun sales in the county have risen 46% over 1980, to a record 66,198. It is easier to buy a pistol than an automobile in Florida, where the gun lobby has frustrated virtually all attempts at handgun controls. Even the Rev. MacVittie has purchased a revolver to keep in his home. "That...
Members of the group will carry out a 10,000-household survey, designed by the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics at the SPH in conjunction with FACE. The 15-minute telephone survey, the product of eight months of collaboration, is designed to yield a health map of the community that correlates patterns of illness with specific geographic locations, Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, visiting professor of Health Policy and Management said yesterday...
Unions have lost support even among workers. Polls show that one-fifth of families in which one or more members belong to unions disapprove of unions, and 27% of union-household members said that no one should be permitted to strike. Only 55% of the American people favor unions, down from 66% in 1967 and 76% in 1957. Perhaps the last major public employee strike that enjoyed any measure of public sympathy was the walkout by postal workers...
...Gluecks measured "capacity to work" through questions about regular household chores, participation in extracurricular clubs or sports, school grades relative to IQ, regular participation in school activities, and "coping capacity...