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This was in some ways the hardest-hitting part of the program because of itds topicality; Smith's direct references to the series of murders served to sharpen the focus of the other outcries make that night against violence against women. Especially poignant were her musings on the lack of opportunity most black women have to escape the atmosphere of fear--"to get away, and write...
...prompt a class discussion of unemployment. An arrest by Starsky and Hutch helps illustrate constitutional guarantees like that of a suspect's right to counsel. The approach is being applied by different companies in slightly different ways. The CBS Television Reading Program helps student TV watchers to sharpen their logic and their language skills by providing "enrichment guides" (script and discussion questions) for special shows. It is now used by more than 4 million students. The New York-based publisher of a booklet series, Teachers Guides to Television, does not offer scripts but presents detailed assignments. (For Battlestar Galactica...
...companies doing business abroad to adhere to antitrust standards tougher than those of the countries where they operate. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the investment banking house of Lazard Freres, noted that governments in Europe and Japan are urging the merging of some of their own big firms to sharpen their ability to compete in world markets...
Nationalization hardly seems an immediate threat to U.S. business. At a time when the U.S. is struggling to curb inflation, create jobs and sharpen its competitiveness in world markets, the purpose of antitrust policy should be to enhance efficiency. Most conference participants felt that a further tightening of antitrust policy might promote inefficiency by immunizing some big slow-moving companies from takeovers and protecting inept managers from being tossed out. Kennedy-Metzenbaum, remarked Rohatyn, "could be called the Large and Inefficient Business Protection Bill." The way to reduce conglomerate mergers, he added, is to improve economic policy. Bringing down inflation...
...differences between the Corporation and the student movement sharpen on a range of issues, in particular on Afro-American Studies and South Africa, we think it is incumbent on the editors of The Crimson as responsible journalists to report fully on the events and ideas which are bringing the University to the point of crisis. Bill Swislow '79 Ian Fletcher '79 Matthew Rothschild...