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Speaking before a standing-room crowd of more than 300 at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel hospital, Nader said physicians tend to steer away from preventive medicine because of the "low prestige" accorded doctors in that specialty...
...they could not solve the problems of poverty and injustice in the country simply by throwing money at them. As their outlays to social programs grew, poor policy coordination and bureaucratic entanglements got in the way of meaningful progress and fostered the expectations of a society that could not steer itself clear of an inflationary mess...
...nearly as at home on the range as his Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. For over 15 years, Nebraska-born "Mac" Baldrige, 58, has been riding in as many as ten rodeos a year, often finishing in the money ($6,000 last year) in his specialty, steer roping. Last week in Phoenix, Baldrige competed for the first time since joining the Administration. He lost, perhaps because rounding up his department "has taken precedence over rodeo practice." But he did snare an even bigger prize: the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Man of the Year award. Shucks, the Cabinet cowpoke...
...began, as any self-respecting laborer would, to invest importance in my work. I cared if my endcaps looked nice and full, and I developed a distinctly casual style in wielding my cutter. I took pride in my ability to steer up to six shopping carts at a time from one end of the store to the other. I considered it a challenge each time a customer asked about the location of an obscure Super-Saver product, and I began to memorize aisle numbers. For my efforts, I was given increased power and was eventually assigned to sort the incoming...
...Caught between students who desire a larger commitment to their particular needs--increased minority admissions, more minority faculty, a Third World center--and a disdainful though reticent group of Harvard citizens who shy away from specters of separatism--this group tends to uphold the idea of meritocracy--Bok must steer a hazardous middle course...