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...apply to non-Western cultures, to earlier historical epochs? Levinson suggests it does, but has no real basis for this claim. And most importantly, as one is left shouting in frustration at roommates and friends after reading this book--Why? Why does life work this way, what is the motor of the changes of eras and developmental tasks, what causes the cycle to occur? Is the engine of change biological or social? Levinson does not have the answer, but it would indeed be amazing if a discipline provided all the answers at the beginning of its researches instead...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: It's Just This Crazy Phase I'm Going Through | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

Toyota, Datsun and Volkswagen all raised prices last month by 3.9% to 5.4%; about the same time, Ford Motor Co. lifted prices on three of its smaller models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Import Inflation | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...least, they're on their way. Back in the early '60s, when Robert MacNamara was trying to run the Defense Department the same way he had run the Ford Motor Company--at a profit--"computer simulations" of wartime situations were all the rage. The generals and admirals and Cabinet members would huddle together with groups of high-power academics--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty here, always comes to mind as the prime example--and then they would all play high-voltage computer games to test out any theories they had managed to devise. But then one day, some...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Gamesmanship | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

...then went no higher. Polaroid came out with its $39.95 OneStep to challenge Kodak's identically priced Handle. Though both cameras were immediate successes, accounting for more than half of all instant-camera sales, the OneStep outsold the Handle by about 2 to 1. The OneStep has a motor that instantly ejects the print after exposure, while the Handle must be cranked before the print emerges. Kodak has brought out two improved instant models, the Colorburst 100 and the Colorburst 200, at $44.95 and $54.95, but few analysts believe the company will be able to wrest a substantially larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cameras That See by Sound | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...HAVEN--The Crimson linksters spent a sleepless night here at the New Haven Motor Inn imagining their blankets were links of eiderdown as each fairway billowed and twisted with every toss and turn...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Linksters Blow Up at NCAA Qualifying Yale Proves Too Tough | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

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