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Like an American businessman trying to sell widgets in Japan, Richard Gephardt knows about the frustrations of unequal competition. After all, the little known Missouri Congressman is trying to take on Gary Hart, the Sony of Democratic politics. But Gephardt thinks he has found the lever to open up the 1988 political market: the $170 billion trade deficit and America's declining competitiveness in world commerce...
Many Kremlinologists question whether Gorbachev will be able to win over the bureaucracy. Says Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University: "Glasnost is a lever to break up the static formations of the entrenched interests and corrupt groups that have been so powerful. But the implementation of these policies is hindered because ((Gorbachev)) has not had time to develop the support among mid- and lower-level officials. It's a huge machine, and it's very hard to get a handle on it." Jeremy Azrael of the Rand Corp., a West Coast think...
American companies often take legal action to keep imported knock-offs of their products out of the U.S. But Lever Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are subsidiaries of Unilever, a British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped...
...LATTER is true, then the University should consider a thorough revamping. But if that's not so, and the letter is just an example of the administration's concern that alumni can't vote without someone to tell them which lever to pull, then Derek Bok needs to be instructed of his error. Maybe then such paternalistic, unilateral decision-making will be avoided in the future...
...living in the west-side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. A nattily dressed real estate developer, he has a big house and two cars, one of them a BMW. But he has also kept the vow he made in college: to use his education as a lever to help other black people...