Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could happen Harvard officials express the same virulent attitude that their Yale counterparts do. In the wake of a favorable decision last spring from the National Labor Relations Board on a disputed union election. Harvard declared virtual war on the United Auto Workers local trying to organize clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area, vowing to high the union for the good of the University community. The liberal ideal that unions are socially useful in situations, upheld just last year in a book by a pair of Harvard professors, evidently is not applicable at this university. J. P. Stevens...
...impending departure of Baker will complete a virtual clean sweep of the White House team that helped Reagan to an impressive record of success in his first four years, culminating in his landslide re-election. Many of the aides were Californians who had served him well in Sacramento when he was Governor more than a decade ago. Edwin Meese expects to be confirmed within a month as Attorney General. Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the closest adviser on social and personal matters to both Reagan and the First Lady, is expected to take a Washington public relations job. Attorney...
...represent only 42.5% of the current population of 145,000. In their fight for independence, the militant Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front boycotted territorial elections last November and set up roadblocks throughout most of New Caledonia. That show of defiance triggered bloody confrontations that left the island in a virtual state of siege...
...cities, where most of the large but inefficient state-owned industries are located. At a party meeting last October, the delegates approved a Deng-inspired resolution detailing an ambitious package of reforms aimed at reinvigorating the urban economy and giving industrial workers some incentives. The program called for virtual autonomy for state-owned enterprises, the levying of corporate-type taxes and a radical cutback in central planning. Most important, the plan looked toward price reforms on goods subsidized by the state. Deng envisioned removing the subsidies, which account for nearly half of the country's $96.33 billion budget, and allowing...
Back at the office, which by the summer of 1983 was a huge converted helicopter factory, the staff was growing. Virtual- ly all of the top men and wo- men Ueberroth had known for years. His style throughout was to turn responsibility over to tested deputies. The man who actually ran the Games, Harry Usher, formerly Ueberroth's travel business attorney, says leadership and inspiration, not operations, are Ueberroth's managerial gifts. Whenever his lieutenants bucked decisions upward, Ueberroth flung them back down. "Authority is 20% given," he would say, "and 80% taken. Take it." If someone faltered, Ueberroth...