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...ANNUAL SPRINGTIME orgy of divestiture activity has begun again, along with the name-calling that accompanies it. Once again, President Bok and his colleagues on the Corporation are being subjected to bitter and vicious ad hominem attacks...
...more than 2,500 years the only certainty in China has been uncertainty. Again and again the country has endured civil tumult, foreign invasion and the eternal vicious circle of flood, famine and disease. A century ago, the country was courting modernity and Western technology under the slogan "Chinese Learning for the Essence, Western Learning for the Application." Fifty years ago, Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government were encouraging economic growth, scientific advancement and managerial expertise. Both drives proved short-lived. In settling old scores, the present regime may have established new conflicts. In addition, its fondness for what...
...Hart camp by hiring Media Consultant David Garth. Mondale's regular media man, Roy Spence, came up with the worst slogan of the campaign, declaring before New Hampshire that Mondale "dares to be cautious." Garth is known as a tough New York street fighter. "We expect a vicious, negative series of attacks," says Hart Deputy Campaign Chairman David Landau...
ADMITTEDLY, this is a very convoluted and shady tale. But it reveals just how President Carter's 1979 wild deregulation and the Reagan Administration's flaccid anti-trust prosecution efforts have combined to produce exactly what both Administrations said they would not--vicious interboardroom wars instead of increased oil exploration...
...Olsen continually indicates, suffering is the operative word in the lives of almost everyone in "Son." Without prurience, he adds up the aftermath of Coe's vicious spree: years later, some of his victims cannot stand to be touched, a few are frigid, and all are afflicted by violent dreams. Monahan's marriage ended in divorce. Said her husband: "We'd had a good marriage, and after that we just started to go apart." Alone, she slept in a closet. To her, "night smells different from day. Night smells like rape...