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Teachers looking for a new career in computers need more than anger at local taxpayers for credentials, though. "You can't walk into an interview with your tail between your legs, sour about what education has done to you and sour about Proposition 2 1/2," James Wisdom, a former teacher currently employed by Data Inc., said...
...setbacks, to teams the icewomen defeated twice each during the regular season, sour the conclusion of Harvard's most successful campaign in the squad's three-year varsity history...
...developing his case for Theory Z, Ouchi wisely skips over the sour-grapes complaints by many U.S. businessmen about unfair Japanese competition and zeros in on the style and substance of Japanese management. Using a mixture of business-school scholarship and pop sociology, he concludes that Japanese managers get more out of their employees than American bosses do because the whole structure of Japanese society encourages mutual trust and cooperation. This allows collective enterprises like large corporations to flourish. Japanese companies are structured around a powerful, bonding attachment between workers and their firms, and Ouchi focuses on the ways that...
Schmidt's luck turns sour...
...Zobels are cheechakos, having moved up from Spokane in 1978, so they are open to the charge of sour grapes. Of Ron, a letter writer to the Anchorage Daily News said: "We made his comfortable life possible here. Now he feels cheated, because he isn't being given a free ride." The Zobels insist that their stand is based solely on legal principle and that, despite the abuse they have suffered, they remain committed Alaskans with no plans to leave. Says Ron: "Alaska's attitude toward new residents is its peculiar civil rights problem...