Word: successful
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...might be said that Dushay is the quintessential cross country runner: she combines her outstanding talents with an intense desire for team success and has already become an integral part of the Harvard cross country squad...
Interestingly, however, the meeting underscored an ideological disagreement that still exists within the party despite Deng's success in moving China away from Maoism. At the closing session, Deng chose to appease hard-liners by emphasizing, "In our propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors taking the capitalist road." He continued, "We exert ourselves for socialism not only because socialism provides conditions for faster development of the forces of production than capitalism but also because only socialism can eliminate the greed, corruption and injustice that are inherent in capitalism...
American business leaders have been urged to toughen up, to partake of power breakfasts, to dress only for success. Now along comes Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners (Rawson Associates; $22.95) telling them to be polite. Good manners constitute good business, Baldrige argues. Her model executive is gracious and considerate. When he fires a subordinate, he breaks the news compassionately; when he loses a job, he leaves the firm quickly and quietly. He exhibits an old-fashioned virtue: good manners...
Some look to the Federal Government to make companies competitive. Arguing that Japan's success is based on close business-government cooperation, they call for an industrial policy that would have committees select future growth industries and push exports. But that approach is unlikely to work in the U.S., which lacks the history and ethos of public-private cooperation. A U.S. industrial policy would likely end up in bureaucratic overregulation or logrolling favoritism, with Government aid going to the industries with the most political clout rather than to those that most need development. The Federal Government, of course...
While Government action is important, the basic solution to the trade deficit is for American firms to become more productive--and better salesmen abroad. U.S. firms must turn out high- quality products that earn their markets. Says John Young, president of Hewlett-Packard: "Government can't legislate success; the responsibility for being competitive falls squarely within the private sector." The major tasks ahead for American firms...