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Japanese-style corporate paternalism is strong. Y.K.K. provides cut-rate bus service for employees, and Minami is forever throwing morale-boosting, all-hands-welcome parties at the Esso Motel in Runcorn. After work on Fridays, the Japanese make a point of dropping into Tanner's Pub near the plant to socialize, and the British employees like to ask one another "What doing?"-in good-humored imitation of their bosses' awkward English...
...seems that Alfred Baldwin was stationed in the Howard Johnson's motel across from the Watergate on the night of June 17, 1972. His assignment was to watch the building closely and warn the bunglars inside--via walkie-talkie--if he saw any policemen approaching...
...closed them. He became suspicious and called the police. A District of Columbia police cruiser was sent to the scene. On the way to the Watergate, it ran out of gas. In its place, an unmarked car was sent to check out the complaint. Poor Mr. Baldwin in the motel saw nothing...
Another successful recruiter, McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, rented a floor of a Cambridge motel, where ten of its recruiters met individually with 160 of Harvard's graduates, who were vying for seven $20,000 positions. If a top student expressed a desire to work in a particular city, McKinsey sent him or her there for a look. One student even got a trip to the Paris office. Sea Pines Company, a recreational land developer in Hilton Head Island, S.C., surprised the business schools with a lavish recruiting program, contacting 15% to 20% of the graduates at Harvard...
...months ago recommended to the City Council that Cambridge use the area for a 400-room motel, 1 million square feet of office space, 400 apartments and townhouses, and a 2800-car garage...