Word: spate
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Into this breach comes a new breed of management experts and executives. In a spate of books with such titles as Love and Profit and A Great Place to Work, these experts are pulling in the horns and preaching a gospel of full worker participation in running companies. Such thinking has already won converts at the likes of Ford, Goodyear and General Electric. The books stress cooperation over conflict. "To compete in the marketplace, workers and management must collaborate," declares Charles Garfield, who describes his view in Second to None. "It is in these collaborations that human ingenuity and creativity...
Human decency is a rare commodity on a campus that often discounts emotions and psychological injury. Harvard has recently seen a spate of anti-Semitic incidents, from the dismantling of Hillel's sukkah to the appearance of swastikas, that have been largely ignored by the campus community...
...even the recent welcome spate of films by black filmmakers can put the street situation right in your face with the force of rap, which is one reason why most of those films use rap on their sound tracks to muscle up the drama. Public Enemy itself was heard, memorably, in Do the Right Thing, but nothing in that deft and righteous movie can match the immediacy of a cut like Nighttrain on their new album, Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black. Out only a month, Apocalypse has burned into the Top Ten and sold a million copies...
Whoever wins on Nov. 16 will inherit a spate of challenges: social, environmental, political and, above all, economic. For all the charm of the French Quarter and the sparkling new downtown hotels, New Orleans faces some of the worst urban problems of any U.S. city. With the local economy gripped by a decade-long recession, big industry is disappearing; the river port is languishing; schools are crumbling; the tax base is shrinking; the regional jobless rate stands at 6.8%. Drugs and crime run rampant in many neighborhoods, and the murder rate is among the nation's highest. "The jails...
...most recent spate of attacks appears to have been prompted by a skinhead victory over the authorities: two weeks ago in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda, 25 miles from the Polish border, the state government relocated 230 foreigners whose building had been subjected to a six-day barrage of stones and Molotov cocktails. The possibility of similar victories elsewhere has emboldened neo- Nazis and skinheads throughout Germany...