Word: spite
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Nakasone's views on the major issues reflect the fact that the LDP, in spite of its name, is basically a conservative, free-enterprise party. He has called for strengthening Japanese defense forces as well as his country's ties to the U.S. and the West. He favors cutting income taxes, trimming the government bureaucracy, and paring the nation's swelling budget deficit, now $57 billion. The Prime Minister wants to transfer control of many state-owned companies to private hands. (At the top of his list: the Japanese National Railways.) On the controversial topic of educational reform, he proposes...
...spite of the problems involved in controlling nuclear weapons, as discussed in your article "A Plea for Nuclear Balance" [July 4], I believe there is very little chance that the major powers will engage in nuclear war in the near future. There is no conceivable advantage to be gained by any party in such a conflict. Instead, the first nuclear aggressor will in all likelihood be a relatively isolated country that is affluent enough to possess the bomb but perceives its survival to be endangered by some local dispute. More attention should be paid to controlling nuclear weapons in those...
...puckish caller once asked Interior Secretary James Watt during a radio talk show whether his baldness was caused by acid rain. Watt laughed off the wisecrack, as well he might. In spite of rising concern in the Northeast and Canada, Administration spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that nothing could really be done about acid rain and the industry-produced sulfur emissions allegedly behind them until all the scientific facts were in. Suddenly last week, however, facts came raining down like a summer squall, in effect making further scientific debate on what mainly causes the problem all but irrelevant...
Some employees find the firm slow to capitalize on opportunities in spite of steps to decentralize decision making. "IBM has more committees than the U.S. Government," complains one insider. To increase its flexibility, IBM has set up 15 small ventures within the company since 1981. These explore new business opportunities in such fields as robotics, specialized medical equipment and analytical instruments. The new units are independently run, but they can draw on IBM resources. This seems to provide IBM with the benefits of both a large company and a small one. Says Robert Burgelman, an assistant professor of management...
...spite of his fame and enormous exposure, Glenn at 61 is a shy, rather old-fashioned man. In the office he never removes his jacket or loosens his tie. He seems austere, but he is not a scold and does not preach to anyone. When a member of his staff first applied for a job, he told Glenn directly that he was a homosexual. Impressed by his candor, Glenn considered the matter for a couple of days, then hired him. He resists all efforts to let himself be repackaged. Aides once suggested Glenn get a speech coach, and he curtly...