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Some firms were quicker than others to regard women as executive timber. In his latest book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Management Expert Peter Drucker reports that New York's Citibank was one of the first major companies to go after female M.B.A.s, in the 1970s. Recruiters who were sent out in search of the best male graduates in finance and marketing began reporting back to headquarters that many of the best graduates were women, not men. The bank told them simply to hire the best...
...between the true believers and the naysayers are many who regard SDI as a strategy that has yanked the Soviets back to the bargaining table by exploiting their greatest fear: that Uncle Sam will pull a technological rabbit out of his top hat. Some see Star Wars as the ultimate bargaining chip, to be traded away for sizable reductions in offensive weapons. Others want to take the cautious path of continuing research to see if a space shield is feasible before deciding whether to build it or negotiate with...
Notre Dame's proprietary alumni, including many people who have never been to Indiana, regard victory as the minimum goal. Probably this traces back to Rockne's "Rockette" shifts and one-on-one blocking schemes that made every play of the '20s a potential touchdown. To Irish fans, it seems a reasonable expectation. Winning too much in the '40s, Leahy was broken in the '50s by losing at all. After eleven storied years Parseghian quit in 1974, officially because his blood pressure was zooming, ostensibly because the University of Southern California came from 24 points behind to beat Notre Dame...
...been around as long as there have been teenagers, but its pervasiveness in this country, the dimensions of its social costs and the urgent need to attack the problem are just beginning to be widely appreciated. According to a Harris poll released in November, 84% of American adults regard teenage pregnancy as a serious national problem. The news in recent weeks illustrates the growing concern...
...tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...