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...activists sabotaged the core of its transportation system. As many as 10 million commuters who normally use the railroads were forced to battle their way onto buses, subways and private rail cars. They pushed and shoved with such force that police officers had to use bullhorns to direct the vast throngs. Those who tried to drive to work in Tokyo soon became entangled in gigantic traffic jams. The paralysis was so complete that many schools in Tokyo canceled classes, and national TV showed rows of vacant desks in offices. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone condemned the tie-up as "a vicious...
...addition to the canon in more than three centuries. Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across an entry reading, "Shall I die? Shall I fly . . ." The line, attributed to Shakespeare in the catalog, was unknown to Taylor. So one day last month he asked the Bodleian to show him its "Rawlinson Poetry Manuscript 160," a leather-bound collection of copied manuscripts...
...push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region's transformation to a Communist society, including land redistribution and campaigns aimed at checking corruption, bureaucracy and waste...
...theory, it is the very model of a modern Marxist enterprise. Yugoslavia's clangorous Red Banner auto plant is located in a sprawling industrial park some 85 miles south of Belgrade. Inside a vast assembly hall, 16,000 workers turn out about 220,000 cars a year, including 55,000 copies of the small, ultra-cheap Yugo, the only Communist-built car sold in the U.S. Amid the factory hubbub, Radojko Suljagic, a department manager, extols the 78-member workers' council that ostensibly controls Red Banner. The elective body, of which Suljagic is president, not only chooses factory management...
Your article says "takeover strategy is taking up vast amounts of management's energy and attention." Of course. But would these corporate chiefs have had to fight for their jobs and perks if they had been building the balance sheets for the benefit of stockholders instead of concentrating on short-term operating statements for their own benefit? Earl D. Brodie San Francisco...