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...Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston...
...giving enough consideration to the psychological impact of the change. Executives who have labored for years to win such corporate status symbols as secretaries and luxurious corner offices are reluctant to shed their hard-won perks. Ambitious junior managers, mindful of the old adage ``Out of sight, out of mind,'' resist spending too much time away from headquarters. For employees whose social life revolves largely around their co-workers, the transition can also be wrenching. Some complain that their creativity, stimulated in part by informal corridor chatting or lunches with fellow employees, has been dampened. Even at Chiat/Day the metamorphosis...
...only person on campus who is utterly repelled by the sight of corset-clad grotesques high-kicking in a chorus line? Apparently so, judging from the accolades which have been heaped on this year's Hasty Pudding show...
...Steve-Martins Crimson was exposed Saturday, and the sight wasn't pretty. Harvard was outplayed by then 11th-place Union...
With few alternatives in sight, Republicans are borrowing one idea from Clinton: managed competition. Currently, 90% of all Medicare patients go to ``fee-for-service'' doctors and hospitals. The more they charge, the more Medicare pays. There is no incentive to reduce costs. But costs could be cut if Medicare patients are coaxed into health-maintenance organizations (HMOs), where a single payment provides for all of a patient's needs...