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Petti's arrival in Cambridge will be homecoming of sorts; he received degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. His career in various human resources posts has taken him from a 19-year stint with the Inland Steel Company--where he was responsible for 24,000 employees--to the $6 billion corporation Alcan Aluminum, and now to Harvard...
...battle was joined on the most fundamental conflict between the sovereign states. There were plenty of other differences -- between Northern and Southern states, commercial and agricultural states, coastal and inland states, slave and nonslave states -- but the basic issue was the comparative voting strengths of large states and small. Most of the big states demanded a powerful national government; the small ones feared coercion and insisted on states' rights. And neither side put much trust in the other...
Bikini-clad bathers on the French Riviera looked up last week at black-and- orange skies. For five days, the worst forest fires in more than a decade devastated some 25,000 acres of the Cote d'Azur and the inland hills. At least four persons died, and hundreds more were treated for injuries and smoke inhalation...
...spoke of a "populist revolt brewing" in the heartland. He added, "Nobody in the Administration pays attention as they fly over central America on their way from one coast to the other." That line hardly seems likely to go over in coastal states, but it could stir angry echoes inland...
Moreover, economists discern some trends that could change the coast-vs.- heartland pattern. The big jump in defense spending that has benefited coastal states more than inland ones is over. Falling oil prices seem likely to help fuel-burning industries in the Midwest even more than they hurt the fuel- producing states. Says Robert Z. Lawrence of the Brookings Institution: "The one thing you learn when you look at regional developments is how transitory they...