Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandery--who has a taste for polyester shirts--looks the part of a professional bowler, and he this year competed in two tournaments in Connecticut. But Evan says in the self-deprecating style he often employs, "I'm not good enough to be a professional...
Greeks, especially those that are historically Black in membership, were founded on the basis of such community service and leadership. Fraternities and sororities are not self-serving; their purpose is to serve others. Often this purpose is accomplished though scholarships, philanthropic foundations and volunteer work...
...Hamlet's: Should the U.S. adopt a tougher, more adversarial trade posture toward Japan? From Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill, many Americans long to retaliate against Japan for what they regard, with some justification, as one-sided trading practices. Yet the urge to lash out is tempered by a self-protective need to maintain harmonious economic and political relations with America's most vital Asian ally. The quandary has ; left the Bush Administration walking a fine line between heated cries to battle by congressional trade hawks and equally urgent calls for restraint by dedicated free traders. Last week President Bush...
...advanced technology while gaining little in return. At the same time, passions are inflamed by a sinking sense that Japan is buying up America, from cattle ranches to skyscrapers. And in the eyes of the most frustrated Americans, no amount of prodding seems to persuade Japan to change its self-interested habits. "Protectionism has developed momentum as people realize that the promises of the Japanese government to do something about the trade deficit have not been fulfilled," says Frank Gibney, who has written several books about Japan...
...being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...