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...indicted traders are graduates of top business schools. Last week, to bolster ethical training at his alma mater, the Harvard Business School, former Investment Banker Shad made a reported $20 million down payment on a gift that other alumni contributions will eventually bring to $30 million, the school's largest gift ever. The money will endow chairs and underwrite case studies in ethical issues. In the words of Dean John McArthur, it will allow ethics "to be imbedded in the very fabric of what we teach and research...
...Ronald McDonald and his fans may get the last laugh after all. The world's largest food-service company (1986 profits of $480 million on sales of $12.4 billion) is showing that it can be far more aggressive, imaginative and socially savvy than almost anyone has given it credit for. McDonald's is now trimming the fat and shaking the salt from its food, installing sleek outlets in U.S. airports and hospitals, taking its burgers to such far-flung locales as Yugoslavia and Guam and serving as a leading U.S. employer of minorities and the elderly. Thanks to its current...
...current pace of opening a new outlet every 17 hours, the chain last month christened some 40 new restaurants in places ranging from Manhattan, Kans., to Munich, West Germany, bringing the total number to about 9,530 worldwide. At the same time, the promotion-minded company launched its largest-ever contest, a Monopoly-based game in which 500 million tickets will be given out and $40 million in prizes awarded. And last week the corporation, which is based in Oak Brook, Ill., and takes pride in its all-American image and the exploits of its millions of alumni, practically burst...
...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...both the U.S. and Japan, the Administration's tough action sparked widespread consternation. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, editorialized that the sanctions were "detrimental to the interests of American consumers." The liberal daily Asahi Shimbun declared darkly that "trade war has now come about." In Manhattan, the usually pro-Reaganaut Wall Street Journal warned that "high-stakes trade retaliation, like Russian roulette, is a dangerous game, and the world doesn't benefit when the President of the United States leads by bad example...