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...ranks in corporate America. To the extent that U.S. executives often equate leadership with assertiveness, Asians' traditional reticence and self- effacement have proved detrimental to corporate advancement. "We mind our own business and keep our noses to the grindstone," says David Lam, head of Expert Edge Technology in Palo Alto, Calif. "Doing a good job has turned into a bad thing." Now that Asians see themselves as players, they want to be part of the corporate game. Says Harry Kitano, professor of social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Twenty or 30 years ago, we didn't expect...
...million people in 133 countries, united in a plea to the globe's leaders to get on with the great cleanup. Already there are 1,500 separate programs and demonstrations planned in the U.S., and the harried staff of Earth Day, encamped in a small office in Palo Alto, Calif., receives notification of at least 100 new events each day. They expect crowds of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City and Washington, and out in Tennessee the good green thumbs are expecting to plant 4 million tulip poplar seedlings. The quiet celebrations of kids and oldsters...
...largely as a result of defense cutbacks. Meanwhile, the median price of a Los Angeles home reached $224,000 in the third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years. It's not a crash scenario, but I don't see prices being pushed much higher." In the topsy- turvy world of the '90s, even the Golden State will endure a changing fortune...
...Earth Day 1990 headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., 20 staff members are plotting strategy as if the event were a political campaign. "We're organizing neighborhoods, regions and special constituencies," says communications director Diana Aldridge. The group has taken a few marketing cues from Madison Avenue as well. As part of a drive to raise $3 million, Earth Day 1990 is licensing its logo, which will be plastered on everything from coffee mugs to windbreakers. Posters and ads will soon appear carrying the slogan EARTH DAY 1990: WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD...
...despite the continuing closure of the San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge and two freeways. The colossal traffic jams that planners feared never developed. Tons of rubble from collapsed walls and shattered windows had been hauled off by a fleet of dump trucks that came from as far away as Palo Alto (35 miles). Virtually all San Francisco streets were open, though yellow tape still closed off hundreds of sidewalks adjacent to cracked buildings that might yet collapse. The World Series resumed Friday night at Candlestick Park, and even the tourist business showed signs of revival. To prepare for a meeting...