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...mincentives, Koss says, for someone to the their office instead of an outside company, include cheaper rates and that they "know Harvard quite well, so when we walk into an office we have an insight into their problems that an outside company would...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Control Central | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

...part be because millions of Americans, regardless of ideology or party, are embarrassed that their leader is so consistently stupid, misinformed, or dishonest. The library will be built in 1985, and in front will be a statue of Abraham Lincoln engraved with the first Republican President's pertinent insight: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." If, as most pundits predict, Reagan does win four more years, the memorial will not be erected until...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Reagan's Wing | 1/13/1984 | See Source »

Accepting the resignation of his chief policy advisor, Mayor Koch said last week that Wagner "brought to this city a rare insight and historical perspective...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Going Home Again | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

...Time/Design planner, for example, attempts to sort all the scattered details of an executive's life into neat compartments. The book contains more than two dozen forms for listing activities, to which the user assigns priorities by marking items with special symbols. A Santa Monica, Calif., firm called Insight Transformational Seminars sells the book for $300. The price includes a three-day seminar on how to use it. For $120, customers get a 30-page instruction book instead of the seminar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Date with Status | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...greatest thief of childhood is conformity, an insight that informs The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine (Atheneum; $11.95). Three hens are driven by that ageless query: Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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