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...Frank Upham, a Boston College Law School professor, said the Japanese perceive discrimination as a matter of the heart, while Americans view it as an attack on their legal rights...
...think that discrimination on social and moral levels should be a legal issue and Japan doesn't," said Upham, the author of "Law and Social Change in Post-War Japan." He added that if America were to mimic Japan's legal system, "It would destroy the value we place on individual rights, which may be the only value we have left...
...long, they ask, can the market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
...revival of the U.S. economy has played a large part in influencing French views. Says Paul Horne, Paris-based chief economist for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., a U.S. brokerage and investment house: "The U.S., with its strong recovery, its capacity for creating jobs, its enduring technological lead, has become the focus of fascination in the French economic world." At the same time, many French people have become disenchanted with the Soviets. Says Francois Lagrange, a senior counselor in the French Premier's office: "They cannot provide a high standard of living. They do not make marketable inventions. They cannot...
Americans can now choose from an astonishing 235 brands, compared with 152 only seven years ago. "I worry about the consumer being overwhelmed by the selection," says Joseph Doyle, an analyst with the Wall Street firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Notes John Bergin, president of the McCann-Erickson/USA advertising agency, with tongue firmly planted in cheek: "We certainly are quenching the thirst needs of Americans...