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...competitive shiver into American industries in recent years, the U.S. has still managed to produce such things as the Xerox, the transistor, the laser and the microchip. A lot of Yankeeingenuity is spent, to be sure, on diverting gadgetry, such as a projected palm-size phone and a vacuum cleaner with a memory (a seemingly gratuitous burden). But recent developments in medicine, such as the hybridoma cells for cancer treatment and the creation of insulin through genetic engineering, are making the 1980s look boldly promising...
...each group seems to stick together, without reaching out to each other." Says Darrell McWhorter, a black senior who is president of the Williams student council: "There is really nothing different here from the world outside. These incidents have just shown that Williams does not exist in a vacuum." Says Harvard's Jackson: "Until we sit down and talk to each other about what's really going on in this country that makes people lash out against blacks, Third World people, gay people and poor people, I think the problem will exist...
...robots at a rate of at least 5 to 1. Like many troubled U.S. executives, General Electric's Julius Mirabal recalls going to Japan in 1976 to compare production techniques. He found robots everywhere, including one cluster that had reduced the work force in a vacuum-cleaner plant from several hundred men to eight. "Unless we start doing something to increase U.S. productivity, the United States will be out of business as a country," says Mirabal, who returned from Japan to find that GE was using only ten robots; today it has 111. The auto industry now buys about...
...their anger and bitterness, Jackson's public statements--in spite of the threats she has received--are tempered with a broader concern: that the entire University community understand that for minority students, the recent events represent a threat to their very right to attend the University. Yet in a vacuum of administration inaction and a lack of concern from the rest of the student body, these types of efforts can only have an isolated and limited effect...
...most of all they know the ghetto and how it smells and falls apart. They'll tell you that looking you in the eye, and describe how much it hurts. Sure they know. All they have to do is turn on the television and watch Mrs. Middle Class vacuum her horribly dirt-ridden shag carpet to know. They watch and wonder why they live the way they...