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...they can. Last month, 50 carefully selected Ph.D.'s and A.B.D.'s (all but dissertation) completed the Careers in Business project, a unique, tuition-free program sponsored by the New York State Department of Education. The 31 men and 19 women, ages 26 to 45, spent seven weeks attending classes at the New York University School of Business Administration, just one block from Wall Street. For many of them, teachers or students until now, the crash courses in accounting, finance, economics, law and marketing were a first exposure to the world of business. Notes Randy Lewis...
Another point of conflict was the proposed construction of a new, 200-seat B10 European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
...however, are torn between the Airbus proposal and two competing offers from the U.S. One is from McDonnell Douglas, which is seeking Rolls-Royce engines for its medium-range ATMR; the other is from Boeing, which wants both British engines and wings for its 757. Supporters of the Boeing project claim it would mean 17,000 new jobs for British industry. Even Britain's most strongly pro-European newspaper, the Guardian, argued that "Callaghan should choose the project which promises to sell the most airplanes. This is not a dilemma in which Euro-loyalty ought to play too large...
...Soviets' antisubmarine efforts." The Russians maintain a line of undersea sonar devices across the Arctic waters that separate Norway from Spitsbergen Island. NATO also has an underwater sensing line that extends westward from Vardo toward Greenland. One supposition is that the ships are somehow involved in a project to upgrade the Soviet antisubmarine spy system. Another is that they would like to tamper with?possibly eavesdrop on?NATO signals...
Biographer A. Scott Berg, who began this project as a Princeton senior thesis eight years ago, thus had to struggle with his subject, trying to make a hero out of a man who always fancied himself a spear carrier. In preparation, Berg sifted through Perkins' massive correspondence, including an unsuspected cache of platonic and rather wistful love letters to a younger woman, and interviewed everyone he could find who had a Perkins anecdote to tell. The result is a draw. Perkins emerges as both anonymous and heroic...