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Medfly and Brown Rot...
...Sacramento and Washington-to say nothing of President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo-Republicans could take wry pleasure in speculating about the effects of the Medfly crisis on the Democratic Governor's political ambitions. Farmers began declaring that the state's real plague is "Brown rot." A new poll showed that a stunning 60% of all Californians rated Brown's handling of the situation as poor...
...just products that can spoil or rot that move by air. Tens of millions of dollars in nonperishable goods are also transported by airlines, and delivery delays can lead to losses many times larger than the cost of the actual goods shipped. Commercial aviation moves 90% of the nation's first-class mails and is the principal way in which many firms rush spare parts to customers. Shell Oil Co.'s huge Norco refinery outside New Orleans daily receives several such shipments of spare parts, and its operations could have to be cut back without them...
...composition?" Hands thrash the air. "Do you think your teachers were right?" After considerable debate, the consensus turns out affirmative. Sandy decides to desert the ranks of Position A. "Now, Thomas," says Adler, "you stand alone. But you can still defend yourself. You can say they're talking rot." The discussion goes back to grades. Thomas admits to having received a C. Then Garrick plunges into the fray. He wants to know if Thomas thinks his teacher was "totally subjective" in giving him that...
...what is preached at business schools today is absolute rot," says Michael Thomas, a New York financial consultant and former partner in the investment banking firm of Lehman Bros. "It is paper management. It is not the management of hard resources and people. Business schools teach that business is nothing but the numbers-and the numbers only for the next quarter...