Word: jr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time GM reorganized, in 1992, following a directors' revolt, chairman John F. (Jack) Smith Jr. was handed the wheel. Now the company that Smith heads is reeling. Profits fell 81% in the second quarter, to $389 million from $2.1 billion. Results would have been weak even without the strike...
...JR: In many ways, the average listener experiences it. Any connection to rock is primarily visceral...
...JR: Not necessarily worse, not necessarily better. In some ways worse, in some ways better. What I mean: making music a purely or primarily commercial venture co-opts the subversive potential of music. It's the visceral connection that gets sold, not the political one. But you can't just take one without the other; inadvertently, you end up with both. A kid who buys a Sex Pistols record at Blockbuster music still has a Sex Pistols record. It's like selling sex if selling sex also meant selling commentary on sex that forced you to think about...
Quality education, affordable housing and heterogeneous communities are essential for rebuilding urban areas, Thomas M. Keane Jr. '78 told a group of about thirty at the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday afternoon...
...Modern Library's list was compiled by an advisory committee of scholars and publishers, including historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, author William Styron, Modern Library board chair Christopher B. Cerf '63 and historian Gore Vidal...