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...ethics in 1976, when he was assigned a Watergate- inspired course on legal ethics. Later that year, he began to muse over the increasing distance between society's emphasis on measures designed to prevent bad conduct and its incentives to promote good behavior. In Los Angeles he founded the nonprofit Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics, named for his parents, and started offering classes. During the past four years, he has taught thousands of people in hundreds of companies and organizations. One of his main precepts: "We judge ourselves by our best intention, but we are judged by our last...
...Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. "The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did," says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. "In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country," says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. "Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments...
...awesome performance of U.S. missiles and fighter planes in the gulf war seemed a reassurance of America's technological prowess. But an alarming report last week by the nonprofit Council on Competitiveness raises new questions about the nation's high-tech health. The council examined 94 critical technologies and found the U.S. leading the world or holding its own in 61 and trailing in 33 others. While America remains strong in biotechnology, artificial intelligence and aerospace, it is falling behind or losing in lasers, computer chips and robotics...
...ground that MCA and Matsushita did not get government permission to change the management of the concessions. The Interior Secretary appears to be playing rough in an effort to persuade Matsushita to donate the park company to the government or to sell the operation to a nonprofit group at a below-market price...
Hardy and former California Congressman Tony Coelho are reportedly teaming up in an effort to buy the company from Matsushita. But there will be other bidders. A coalition of preservationists has formed the Yosemite Restoration Trust, a nonprofit organization that aims to buy the concessioner and put into effect a 1980 federal plan for reducing commercialism at the park...