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...episode's greatest impact may be a loss oftrust among scholars who use the network, whichlinks research centers and universities thatexchange non-classified information...
...Researchers at the University of California at Davis have watched customers in more than 40 salad bars and found that the typical awkward design of the stations encourages patrons to use their hands to pick up food. Says Robert Sommer, director of the University's Center for Consumer Research: "Short- waisted customers had to reach to get food. Children had a hard time getting things. And serving utensils did not suit the item they were placed with...
Schwartz, who heads Catalyst, a Manhattan research organization that focuses on work and family issues, offered the two-track plan as a way to help companies make the most of the vast numbers of women entering the managerial ranks. The author contends that women managers cost companies more to employ than men do. Turnover is greater among women managers, she says, because some of them quit high-pressure jobs when they cannot reconcile the conflicting needs of work and family. As a result, Schwartz claims, companies lose the time and training invested in such managers...
...first question is easier to answer: no one knows how far is too far, certainly not with any precision, perhaps not even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...