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...Cadillac. In with the Toyota. But first, out with the President, via Watergate: nearly two years spent sifting through the rubble of Richard Nixon. Whatever hopes of a clean start were raised by Gerald Ford collapsed under the Nixon pardon and an economic crisis as impervious to Ford's WHIP INFLATION NOW buttons as it had been to Nixon's wage-and-price controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits: The Can't-Do Mentality | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...sound like cruel and unusual punishment, but Zhu's résumé might just be equal to the challenge. Credited with everything from taming inflation in three years to being the driving force behind Shanghai's economic miracle, Zhu is widely admired in the West as a whip-cracking manager open to innovation, and as a man of his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Mission Impossible | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...

Author: By Carine M. Williams, | Title: Defining Progress | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

Inevitably, People look at me and others a little strangely when we whip out our new information managers, writing on the screen in its input language called Graffiti. When they next ask, with widened eyes, "What's that?" Tell 'em: The name's Pilot, PalmPilot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palm Pilots Organize Busy Lives | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

Alan Simpson rose to the position of Republican whip before retiring from the Senate...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson Brings Western Flair as New IOP Director | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

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