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...once owned his; Donny is black. High school and adolescence break the original ties that bound this group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive in their environment and become small-bore celebrities: the pretty, peppy cheerleader and the swaggering varsity tackle...
...most complex aspects of Japanese business is the relationship between managers and the government. Tokyo ministries that set national economic priorities can exert substantial pressure on companies, but their influence is much less than is believed outside Japan. Says Takeshi Sakurada, chairman of the Toho Rayon manufacturing company and honorary president of the Japan Federation of Employers: "The amount of government interference or the role of government in private business is very small as compared with the U.S. or the European Community." Adds one Western economist in Tokyo: "There is no Japan Inc.-if there ever...
...first, executives of rubber companies howled in outrage, for they feared that the Government was letting Jersey Standard into their business. So Newhall spread the manufacture of butadiene and styrene among 14 oil companies, six chemical companies and one rayon firm. The raw materials were then shipped to plants operated by B.F. Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone and U.S. Rubber, where they were mixed and turned into products. Thus, rubber companies kept control of their industry...
...liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers in rayon textile plants. Muscle and Blood also explores continuing safety hazards in the mining and automobile industries, as well as the psychological stresses in automated assembly operations...
...stumbled frantically down the sloping rough to the left of the par-3 16th, through teeming mobs of Ban-Lon, Bermuda, cotton, Rayon double-knit and polyester, past the suspicious tournament marshals with the bright red shirts and the white styrofoam pith helmets, and on up to the place from which the players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting...