Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there is the industry's oddball marketing logic, in which automakers raise prices and offer discounts at the same time. Prices of U.S.-made autos have doubled within the decade, to an average of $14,000. "The strength of the deutsche mark and yen caused importers to raise prices...
A case in point is the Corcoran Gallery's sudden cancellation of an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs. The whole matter was needlessly confused when the director, Christina Owr-Chall, claimed she was canceling the show to protect it from censorship. She meant that there might be pressure to...
Many members of the class of '68 were figuring how to avoid Viet Nam. His fraternity brother and later business partner, Roland Betts, says that George faced a special pressure: "He felt that in order not to derail his father's political career he had to be in military service...
In his late 20s, still single, he decided to attend Harvard Business School. The curriculum appealed to him far more than Cambridge's liberal atmosphere. Watergate was nearing its climax, and Bush pere was in a defensive crouch as Republican national chairman. The son sympathized from afar, then decided to...
Now a valuable and timely exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art demonstrates just how much further Japan's children of the postwar "economic miracle" have gone in breaking the old rules. "Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties" affords American audiences an overdue opportunity to examine some...