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...something to shoot for, it's not critical. Growing families or businesses or nations have a legitimate need to borrow if they're investing in the future. It makes sense to borrow for education, research, equipment and infrastructure that will make us more productive. We would be insane to stint in these areas. Is NASA a place to cut back? Hardly. NASA and high-tech programs like it are engines of our economic future. If we lose our technological edge, we've lost our economic future...
Perhaps so, but Stempel's presence alone -- his booming voice and avuncular manner -- motivates workers and soothes many Wall Street analysts. When Stempel left as head of GM's European operations in 1982 after a 17-month stint, union delegates at West Germany's Russelsheim plant gave him a ceramic wine pitcher as a symbol of the warm relations he fostered with the rank and file. Detroit's unions appreciate him too. Donald Ephlin, head of the United Auto Workers' GM unit, prizes the president's accessibility. Says Ephlin: "If I have things to bring to his attention...
...with music. After leaving Pomona College as a sophomore, Cage went to Europe intending to become a writer. Instead, he studied modern music and art and returned to the United States in the mid-1930s to pursue two years of study with composer Arnold Shoenberg. It was after this stint in New York and with a new conviction that he had no ear for harmony that Cage began to usher in a new era of music...
Gleason majored in math as an undergraduate at Yale, and after a stint in the Navy during World War II, he became a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows program at Harvard...
Many cite the story of Dukakis' staffing decisions in 1982, when he was re-elected governor after a three-year stint at the Kennedy School, as evidence of what might happen this time around if the Democrats take the White House. Allison says that he was forced to personally negotiate a hiring freeze with Dukakis after the gubernatorial election because the former lecturer lured away so many of his K-School colleagues...