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Frederic Storaska, who has studied more than 4,000 rape cases as executive director of the National Organization for the Prevention of Rape and Assault, believes that there are two broad categories of rapists: the man who feels inferior, puts women on a pedestal and rapes to increase his own sense of worth; and the man who actually thinks women are "asking for it." Like the feminists, Storaska considers the principal cause of rape to be male aggressiveness, fostered by "the overall pressure our competitive society puts on its male contingent, giving men the impression that all things are there...
...management decisions. The first was hyperexpansion: between 1969 and 1973 the chain opened no fewer than 376 outlets, many in poor locations. One reason was simply ineffective planning, but there were other causes. The company sued at least three of its executives for allegedly accepting bribes to lease inferior sites at inflated rents. The second decision: Grant, which started as a 25 cent variety operation in 1906, began broadening its lines of clothing and home furnishings to include higher-priced merchandise, especially big appliances. To boost sales, the company expanded its credit operation. But while Grant sank deeper and deeper...
...busing is most likely to be accomplished peacefully when 1) the number of nonwhites in each school is less than 40%; 2) students are not bused to schools that are inferior to the ones that they previously attended; 3) schools are near enough so that the parents of the bused students can easily stay involved in them; 4) most parents, educators and city officials are committed to preventing disturbances; and 5) black-white advisory groups are formed to defuse problems in advance...
...parents object primarily to what they consider the inferior education and disorderly conditions at Parkland. Mrs. McCauley visited it last year and claims that "it hadn't been painted in eight years. There was no maintenance." Moreover, they have heard rumors of stabbings, rapes and other crimes in the Parkland neighborhood...
...recognizable reality has accidentally made its way into Tarden's nightmarish, monomaniacal descriptions of torture and death. There is no question but that Kosinski is a fiction writer of considerable craft, as well as imagination. These few breaths of conventionality--one person saying that women make Tarden feel inferior, another simply that he has bony features--show the limitations of Tarden's vision, and simultaneously cast doubt...