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...lamentations about how awful work is prompt an answering wail from the management side of the chasm: nobody wants to work any more. As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then...
...rate for slaves was 15 shekels). Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless they are inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. There were no reported human deaths from rabies in the U.S. last year, thanks to prompt vaccination. But the Federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta counted 6,405 animal cases in 1980, about twice as many as in the early 1970s and the highest figure in 26 years...
Because private courts can work only when both parties want a prompt decision, their growth potential is limited. Explains Judge Schauer: "Over 99.9% of our cases involve one side that doesn't want to go to court. Defendants don't want that day of judgment." The typical rent-a-judge case involves squabbling business partners who are eager to get a ruling and resume their profitable venture. Recently, private judges have also started handling family law matters...
Without exception, the speakers urged Harvard to take a more moral stand on the social issues which prompt shareholder resolutions at companies in which the University owns stock...
...Russians are afraid that permitting the exodus of Jews would prompt other groups--including millions of Muslims--to seek the same privilege," Drinan added...