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BUSINESS SCHOOL administrators, faculty, and students are unanimous in their support of the case method--it is probably the chief reason Harvard MBAs are so eminently eminently employable and well-paid. Business faculty see cases as the heart of their work. A recent faculty report speaks of "the oral tradition that surrounds the program an involves the passing of program lore from one faculty member to another and from one student to another." "Case materials" are used in 80 per cent of the required courses in the MBA program. "We try to teach students not subjects and techniques but attitudes...
...future of nuclear power is an issue that bedevils America and excites the Soviet Union. While perfervid demonstrators, dallying bureaucrats and well-paid lawyers are holding back the development of U.S. atomic power, the U.S.S.R. is moving ahead rapidly with its own nuclear programs. TIME Correspondent Peter Staler recently spent two weeks visiting Soviet nuclear installations and filed this report...
...movie is being shot in Georgia and California without any animated effects. Beyond the clever scenes and imaginative facial sculpting, its success depends on a proud and well-paid crew of 20 invisible performers who are the real actors. The Muppeteers must crouch uncomfortably below the set's surface with their Muppet-covered arms stretched painfully skyward, as they stare into reverse-image video monitors to see what their arms and fingers are doing. "Think of dancing, which is a physical extension of internal feelings," explains Muppeteer Jerry Nelson, 44. "In a smaller way, pushing creative energy through your...
Those costs are already climbing frighteningly. As the slumping dollar makes it increasingly difficult for even well-paid American workers to support Stateside living standards overseas, companies have had to offer many fringes (housing, cost-of-living and education allowances) to induce top people to take foreign postings. Compared with New York City, costs of living are 21% higher in Paris, 34% more in Bonn, 41% in Geneva and 56% in Tokyo...
...money along with all that old power have already lent the city a noticeable ambience all its own. The Chicago Daily News recently called it "the most puffed-up, self-important city in the world." And last month New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan charged that the well-paid bureaucrats have "grown pleasingly plump with their own self-regard...