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Professor Kezios offers his students a stout principle for ethical dilemmas like the one at Morton Thiokol: "Raise hell, stand firm." But he acknowledges that such doctrine is easier said to students in school than done by them in the working world: "They don't have any clues as to how they are going to behave out there." In Los Angeles, Michael Josephson, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who has founded a new institute for ethical studies, is grappling with the same reality gap. "It's easy to say you want to make a lot of money and also...
...single automobile chase," notes the director dryly. "No gun duels. The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port." On a snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young man," who is preparing some after-dinner remarks with allusions to Browning and classical antiquity that, he fears, will sail over the heads of his unsophisticated audience...
...beginnings. The way "some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club, and the stout and uncoordinated boy with no real love of the sea began tweaking and fiddling and driving the sport crazy...
...Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the NATO training ground near Fallingbostel, West Germany. She and West German + Chancellor Helmut Kohl were making their first joint visit to British forces stationed in the area. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser...
...Philadelphia, strikers are led by Union Leader Earl Stout, a stubborn antagonist of Mayor Goode's, who has boastfully asserted that the city cannot run without him. At week's end, negotiations were under way, large numbers of workers were returning to their jobs, and Stout hinted that an end to the strike might be in sight. That was a hopeful sign since, as one negotiator for the city saw it, "Earl will settle when he wants to settle...