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...merely going on as we are now couldn't be more shortsighted," says Rob Shapiro, the Progressive Policy Institute vice president who helped define the economic prescriptions Clinton embraced five years ago. In theory, the nation's companies should understand this best and should therefore be leading the charge toward comprehensive training on the job. "Since better-trained workers are usually more productive, markets should provide all the incentives" for companies to make economically efficient training decisions, says Shapiro. Unfortunately, in the real world, businesses invest less in training their workers than logic would demand, mostly because workers are free...
...time for us, for all of us, to take a closer look at what's really happening in Israel. To look past the biases and deficits in reportage, to put aside the propaganda, to re-assess and attempt to understand. And, most importantly, to remember. --Kevin Shapiro...
...ROBERT SHAPIRO Takes leave from CBS as client conflict crimps his O.J. analysis--now he's got scruples...
Here's a telling story about the way the movie business works today. Last year, after shooting was completed on Flipper, which Universal was expecting to be one of its big summer movies for 1996, writer-director Alan Shapiro was approached by the studio's merchandising department. The executives had a problem: there were only three characters in the film suitable for licensing to stuffed-animal makers--Flipper, Scar the Hammerhead Shark and Pete the Pelican. Toy manufacturers were demanding a fourth to round out the Flipper line. "But the movie's been shot," Shapiro argued. "It's too late...
...success--analysts cite Casper and Independence Day as two recent hit movies that disappointed their licensees. Much depends on how "toyetic" a movie is, in industry parlance, and the degree to which merchandise is sympatico with the film. Flipper licensed a camping set, "which is pretty funny," says director Shapiro, "because dolphins aren't usually found in the forest...