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...nearly two years they have vigorously complained that a vital and innovative industry was being destroyed not by bad business practices but by predatory competition. In a series of complaints filed with the U.S. Government, the industry alleged that the Japanese were using unfair trade practices in their zeal to penetrate the U.S. market. The smoking gun: a memorandum issued by Hitachi executives instructing their salesmen to undercut U.S. firms by 10%, no matter what the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Off the Suitcase Brigade | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Casey's aggressive style and zeal for clandestine operations could prove to be the undoing of everything he achieved if the agency is once more battered by multiple investigations. As the CIA's ailing chief struggles to recover his health at Georgetown University Hospital, colleagues hope his well-groomed successor can protect and consolidate his legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey's Well-Groomed Successor | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...natural to want to confront groups such as the Klan. But in our zeal to combat the hate and evil they espouse, we must not forget the problems which are more difficult to solve, the evils which are less easy...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The March of Racism: The Forsyth Saga | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...will in the end fall back on his enormous energy and zeal. Motion, if nothing else, always makes Bush feel more like his own man. He has for six years buried any differences with Reagan. Establishing the independence and vitality of his own ideas will be a painful task. For behind all the motion there is a shallowness to Bush. He will have to do more than serve up the safe and the obvious. The real dilemma of his vice-presidential silence is that George Bush still must prove he has something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Real George Bush? | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...more serious concern among doctors is that health-care providers will hurry into trendy services without acquiring real expertise. "I worry that in their entrepreneurial zeal they are going into things that they don't do well," says Physician Sidney Wolfe, director of the Naderite Public Citizen Health Research Group. Another complaint is that hospitals and clinics are putting too much emphasis on simple, promotable services, especially those aimed at the wealthy. Says Physician Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas: "Many hospitals are becoming boutiques, delivering only the profitable services. It bothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hospitals Learn the Hard Sell | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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