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...shipping executive, by threatening antitrust action against the American members. Since 1916, U.S. members of shipping conferences have been exempt from antitrust laws, but Justice is making noises about ending that freedom in line with President Carter's deregulation policy. A U.S. pullout from the conferences would scarcely tempt the Soviets to join...
...stay here if my work didn't take me away for such extended periods," he says. "This place is my fixed foot." A staff writer at The New Yorker ("The job translates as 'unsalaried freelance'") since 1965, McPhee enjoys a freedom from deadlines that would tempt most journalists into sloth and several other deadly sins. Not McPhee. Reporting completed and notes arranged, he marches into a routine now familiar to members of his extended family (four daughters from his first marriage live near by; his second wife Yolanda also has four children). He goes to his office...
...philosophy is sound, it has filtered down through so many layers of bureaucracy that it loses any validity it might have had in the beginning. The thought of the minimum security jail at Walpole, with its few educational programs, and a few more visiting privileges, is supposed to tempt the men in the maximum end. But these men, as they will tell you themselves, have spent their lives fighting the authorities; it will take more than a few carrots, they say, to persuade them to change the underlying premise of their lives...
...have already held three mass demonstrations, chanting "Down with the yakuza!" Taoka's men, according to police, were stunned by such a massive outburst of hostility after years of public passivity. Some of them have even given up their lives of crime under the rising social pressure. To tempt the yakuza toward rehabilitation, Sawada is asking businessmen to hire repentant mobsters. So far he has found jobs...
...loser, you lose less." The big lines, in fact, may gain rather than lose. Laker hopes that the bargain fares will be, in the jargon of the industry, "generative" rather than "diversionary." That is, they will not merely switch passengers from high-fare to low-fare flights but tempt into the air people who would otherwise not fly at all. Wall Street analysts believe just that may happen...