Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
...busy shouting at each other over agricultural subsidies, import quotas and trade in services, the ministers who gathered in Geneva went into overtime through the weekend in an attempt to salvage their conference with a minimum pledge to set up formal studies of these fundamental questions. But it was still an inauspicious signal for the free trading system, without which the world economy will founder in the same destructive crossfire that marked last week's conference...
...endeared themselves to L.L. Bean-wearing university professors and affluent suburbanites. Today the safe and sensible Volvo has never been more popular. In a year when other auto manufacturers are struggling, Volvo's American sales are up 12.8%, and the car has passed Volkswagen as the bestselling European import. Last week the Volvo's proud Swedish parent announced that its earnings nearly doubled during the first nine months of this year, to $257 million, as sales increased...
...even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family (ABC, Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) Dennehy hangs around the firehouse, an easily irked captain, while his troop of fire fighters bring him the same kinds of problems the barflies import into Archie Bunker's place. Nor does it much matter, once past the initial shock, that the cast of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (CBS, Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m. E.S.T.) can let fly with a little song in the midst of familial trauma and, when spirits are high, literally...
...such explanations ring Hollow. Already most campus policies of any import are made behind closed doors--by secretive, unaccountable bodies like the Corporation and the Faculty Council. Housing policies, too, have in practice been quietly settled upon by assistant dean Thomas A. Dingman '67 and others' inconsiderate University Hall officials. That undergraduates have been shut out of much decision-making on student life issues is as good a reason as any why the renovations planned for this summer were executed so slowly and clumsily, why students are still assigned to North House "sink closets" in the spring, and why grave...