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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every fundraising division, even for the most admirable organization, must give special attention to those wealthy enough to meet their needs. But to start stratifying a graduating class even before it enters the company of educated men and women is unnecessary. It indicates a certain zeal for money that can lead to abnormalities as happened at the Kennedy School...
...doing the class gift would avoid endorsing Harvard's investment policy, and it would also create a unified goal for the class that would have a beneficial impact on the community that hosted us for four years. As the goal would be to meet the needs of this particular project, and not to maximize the full potential of each class members giving power, this type of gift would unify rather than stratify the class...
Going beyond the historical material, the book offers suggestions on how the U.S. might improve its trade policy and meet the Japanese challenge. For one thing, says Prestowitz, Washington should stop wasting time making sweeping demands that Japan "open" its markets by liberalizing its customs procedures and changing its distribution system. Try as it may, the U.S. is not going to get Japan to change the way it does business. Instead, Prestowitz says, the U.S. should demand a specific share, say 20%, of the Japanese market for a product and let Tokyo worry about how to achieve that goal...
...matter how far the greenback falls, the U.S. economy does not have the industrial capacity to raise exports sharply and also meet much more of the demand by American consumers. Many U.S. companies are trying to remedy this situation by investing heavily in expansion, but much of the equipment they need comes from foreign suppliers. In fact, the U.S. now gets about 50% of its machine tools from abroad. Importing such capital goods will help build up America's industrial base, but in the short run, it will exacerbate the trade deficit...
Wings of Desire works hard to be both an essay and a love story, a mural and an intimate portrait. To savor this film, the viewer must work hard too. But when the artists behind the screen and the angels in the audience meet, it's like a smoke and coffee: fantastic...