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Federal District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner '48 appeared positively enthusiastic to try the case of Ephraim Isaacs, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who claimed he was denied tenure in 1975 because he is Black and Ethiopian...
...dismissing the case of procedural grounds a week ago Friday, skinner expressed what appeared to be regret: "The substance of plaintiff's case is potentially interesting and for a while it looked as if the chance at least to try the issues on the merits could be preserved...
...federal deficit, the health-cost bill is unlikely to remove Medicare from the critical list. Pressured by high-cost medical advances and a graying population, the $59.8 billion program, which serves some 30 million Americans, could go $97 billion in the hole as early as 1995. Said Eva Skinner, chairman of California's Legislative Coalition for Health Care Cost Containment: "Congress produced a quick fix to get us through the election...
Behavioral Scientist B.F. Skinner at Colby College in Waterville, Me.: "Orwell painted a strange portrait of what the world would be in 1984, and across this nation this spring, commencement speakers will be comparing that prediction with what has actually happened. Do we believe that war is peace? That freedom is slavery, that ignorance is strength? We used to have a Department of War and a Secretary of War; now we have a Department of Defense and a Secretary of Defense. But we have not gone as far as Orwell predicted and renamed it the Department of Love...
Nonetheless, critics charge that manufacturing still lacks the kind of great innovators who set up the original American system. Harvard's Skinner says that many manufacturers are "housekeepers but not yet architects." More strategic thinking, more top talent and more development, he says, are needed. Detroit auto executives take exception to that. They insist they are no longer second to Japanese manufacturing in any way. "There is no manufacturing gap," says Ford President Donald Petersen. Echoes GM President F James McDonald: "There are no differences in the process. Most of the technology everyone uses was developed here...