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...instincts are for cooperation, not combat. As provost at Yale during the depths of the recession, Cooper had to carry out deep spending cuts, including a 20% slash in the faculty budget. Yet his even, unemotional, aboveboard handling of the problems won him a standing ovation from the faculty when his term expired. "He can turn people down without offending them," says William Brainard, a fellow economics professor. "He can accept criticism because little ego is involved in anything he does...
...loud as the shout from Elvin Anderson's yelping GT-60 8.20s as he went slip-sliding into that stationwagon. But home, for me and for Prine, is a place of contradictions, a place where true natural beauty can give away around the next turn to the ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next Saturday night. A lot of days I'm glad I have Boston and The New York Times and the current cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh...
...Practice Slash. Discovered a short time later (he by a guard, she by a neighbor), they were rushed to different hospitals. He had apparently taken only some ten to 20 pills and was soon back in prison. She had taken more Seconal, plus a second bottle of Dalmane sleeping pills, and was in a critical coma for several days. Prison officials had had reason to suspect a possible suicide pact. Gilmore, who dabbles in poetry as well as drawing, had written Nicole from his cell: "Hang myself? ... I may do that." She had written him that she had practiced suicide...
Treasury Secretary William Simon last year made the most drastic tax-reform proposal of all. He would "wipe the slate clean of personal tax preferences, special deductions and credits, exclusions from income and the like." By his reckoning, the Government could then slash tax rates by almost a third with no loss of revenue...
...extraordinary bond uniting workers and their bosses-the famous lifetime employment system. Once hired, a worker can traditionally expect complete job security for the rest of his career. Executives treat employees as members of a huge family; they devise company songs, run company sports clubs and even will slash their own salaries to avoid laying off workers. In return, companies receive-and reward-intense loyalty. Wages and benefits are determined by seniority; a man or woman who has been with a company for 30 years makes, on the average, four times as much as a newly hired worker, though both...