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A.A. was conceived in Akron, when Bill Wilson, a stockbroker suffering from an uncontrollable drinking problem, got in touch with Surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith, a total stranger and also an alcoholic. Wilson's desperate idea: apply the buddy system to the problem of quitting. Since then A.A. has grown steadily...
TWA will not be greeting Icahn with a friendly "welcome aboard." Said President C.E. Meyer: "Mr. Icahn's presence is uninvited and undesirable." TWA has just begun to recover from nearly a decade of turmoil that culminated in the February 1984 spin-off of its lucrative hotel and food-service...
Weinberger's speech, delivered after he had talked it over with President Reagan, is the closest thing to an official Administration reading of the lessons of Viet Nam. But some rude jeers greeted the Weinberger doctrine. Luttwak, for example, called Weinberger's views "the equivalent of a doctor saying he...
Yeutter will need all of his practical skills, and maybe a miracle or two as well, when he enters the minefield of U.S.-Japanese trade relations. In the four decades since World War II, Japan has waged one of the most successful campaigns in the history of commerce, making its...
EXPERTS AGREE that the plethora of criticism is indicative of a conservative trend in American culture, an attempt to recover from what Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment called "the hangover from the '60s," when traditional requirements were generally abandoned under student and faculty pressure. Along with a yen...