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...stifling spring heat wave two weeks ago, one couple in Long Island's fast-growing Suffolk County took 1 hr. 15 min. to sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting a series of 40-ft.-high earth berms to protect the trees and shrubs from the lethal effect of de-icing salt splashed up by heavy traffic on the neighboring tollway. Mark Baldassare, a sociologist...
...flame scorched a Utah hillside last week. Jubilation was in order: the firing marked the first full- scale test of the space shuttle's revamped solid rocket booster since last year's Challenger explosion. After a government commission pinned the tragedy on faulty seals in the booster, manufactured by Morton Thiokol, the company returned to the drawing board. Last week's firing, the first of six, tested new electrical heaters and reinforcing bands on the booster's joints. "We've taken a real bashing by the press," said Morton Thiokol Engineer Allan McDonald, who heads the redesign. "This proves...
Since the disaster one engineer, Roger Boisjoly, has quit Morton Thiokol and brought lawsuits for more than $3 billion against the company in connection with the deaths of the seven shuttle crew members. However, Arnold Thompson, another who had argued for a delay, has stayed on "to get things flying again." Thompson's decision to hang in, hoping and working for better decisions in the future, reflects the tendency of most of corporate America. "Managers are paid to manage, and it's up to them to make the final decisions," says Thompson, implicitly accepting the dominance of the organization over...
Professor Kezios offers his students a stout principle for ethical dilemmas like the one at Morton Thiokol: "Raise hell, stand firm." But he acknowledges that such doctrine is easier said to students in school than done by them in the working world: "They don't have any clues as to how they are going to behave out there." In Los Angeles, Michael Josephson, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who has founded a new institute for ethical studies, is grappling with the same reality gap. "It's easy to say you want to make a lot of money and also...
...Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of English Emeritus, died Tuesday after a short illness...