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...patient, even take some losses and develop it." Rivals on Wall Street know they cannot afford to be complacent. Says Eugene Atkinson, former head of the Tokyo branch of Manhattan's Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "Despite all our efforts to make long-term plans, we pale in comparison with Nomura's awesome strategic thinking and investment." There is always the reminder of Detroit in the 1960s, when U.S. auto companies thought they were invulnerable to Japanese competition. Says Jayme Garcia dos Santos, general manager of Chase Manhattan Securities in Japan: "It's true that the Japanese have...
...problems of sending a spacecraft to Mars and bringing it back to earth pale when compared with the challenge of keeping its human cargo safe and in peak physical and mental condition. The medical consequences of long periods of weightlessness are still not fully understood. And radiation, says NASA's Michael Bungo, "is going to be a showstopper." Once beyond the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which protects terrestrial life from most lethal radiation, crew members would be vulnerable to cosmic rays. These highly energetic particles travel through space at close to the speed of light and can produce...
...true story," Mary McGarry Morris begins her first novel. "It starts once upon a summer day in Vermont." A half-naked Lorelei picks up a child-man who is working on roads for the county. The simpleton extends "his tarry hand." Immediately the voluptuous girl steals a pale blue pickup truck and waits for him on the soft shoulder of the highway. In a fast page, she has kidnaped a baby girl, and in what seems like five minutes after their first meeting, the three have driven into the Twilight Zone, only one as it might be seen through...
...million people visited Turkey, a 20% increase over the previous year. The tourists injected about $1.3 billion into a faltering economy; the annual inflation rate is a devastating 70%. This year the country expects to reap about $2 billion from an anticipated 3 million visitors. These numbers still pale beside the 7 million tourists who flock each year to neighboring Greece, a country that boasts about a fifth of Turkey's population of 55 million. But, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, tourism in Turkey is growing faster than...
...those actions pale before Horner's negotiation of the "non-merger merger" agreement in 1977 that united the housing and admissions policy of Harvard and Radcliffe. Horner herself believes that this agreement is her first and foremost achievement. "Our success in having an equal access admissions policy has really changed the nature and quality of education here," she said, adding those reforms have made "coeducation really viable...