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Immediately one can see what the fuss is all about. No self-respecting liberal or conservative would, in this day and age, come forward in favor of outright discrimination. What troubles people like Bok is this business of going beyond simply eliminating discrimination. What gives rise to the "nightmare of affirmative action" is the idea of actually having to go out and recruit women or minorities for jobs not traditionally held by women or minorities. The requirements of affirmative action do not allow employers to claim that women or minorities might have been hired had they applied for the positions...
...legal situation is murky. U.S. law draws a sharp distinction between domestic and foreign political use of corporate money. Within the U.S., donations to politicians from a corporate treasury are clear-cut crimes?even though more than a dozen companies have confessed to engaging in such activities. But even outright bribery of foreign officials does not violate any U.S. law. It may break the laws of the countries where the bribes are passed, but some of those countries are lax in enforcing their own legal codes. Concealment of foreign payoffs on the books of a U.S. corporation violates the reporting...
...grumbled beforehand that they had not been kept fully informed of the potential dimensions of the bribery revelations. By the time the meeting began, Haughton and Kotchian had drafted a letter, addressed to all Lockheed employees, announcing their resignation. It referred to "the cascading waves of criticism and outright attack that Lockheed and its management have been subjected to" and called for "a new standard of international business conduct." Haughton had been scheduled to retire on his 65th birthday in September, but Kotchian, 61, might have been expected to succeed...
Noting that "any new technology brings with it a certain degree of risk," Coleman concluded that the Concorde's prospective benefits were worth the chance. An outright ban, he said, would be a blow to Britain and France, two allies that had sunk $2.8 billion into the Concorde. Further, Coleman claimed that turning down the Concorde "may well be condemning for all time or delaying for decades what might be a very significant technological advance for mankind." Second-generation Concordes, he said, could be quieter and less harmful to the environment...
Such a deal would probably have the support of moderate leaders like Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda and perhaps even Zaïre's Mobutu, who are worried that an outright M.P.L.A. victory would give the Soviet Union too much influence in Angola and the rest of central Africa. A compromise would also, of course, spare the country more violence and bloodshed. At week's end some estimates of the death toll in the civil war had risen to as high as 100,000-a devastatingly large figure for a country with only 5.5 million people...