Word: roger
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...work the matter out for themselves and see where the rejiggled republic stands. The world's most powerful nation may be ready to be led by a woman, and any woman at all may prepare herself to lead it. This is an exciting choice. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...Harvard-based Program on Negotiation--headed by Williston Professor of Law Roger Fisher is a university consortium designed to advance the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Members of the group have been at the forefront on developing the new negotiating technique, which has been put to its first real test over the past year in nearby Malden, a crowded, working class industrial city of 53,000 generally skeptical of Ivy League planning...
...Ross Perot, EDS (1983 sales: $629.7 million) provides data processing for such customers as the U.S. Army and the state of Tennessee's Medicaid program. GM already has the first task for EDS: streamlining the automaker's morass of accounting, payroll and scheduling records. Said GM Chairman Roger Smith: "We have to get to the point where every time a dealer sells a Cadillac, then Firestone or Goodyear automatically will send another set of tires right on over to one of our plants." By providing EDS with billions of dollars in new business, GM hopes to build...
...times in order to grasp the character of the world, to survive in the world, perhaps to move it. Archimedes said he could move the world as long as he had a long enough lever. He pointed out, too, that he needed a ground to stand on. -By Roger Rosenblatt
Labor leaders and other backers of Simpson-Mazzoli often view the aliens as a rising menace to both the jobs and the pay of U.S. citizens. Says Roger Conner, director of the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform: "I talked the other day to a Los Angeles contractor who told me he had just replaced a $20-an-hour American mason with an illegal $5-an-hour mason who is just as good. If nothing is done, wages for American workers will erode, and resentment among Americans will build dangerously...