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...decade of excess?from the serious power suits of Working Girl to the Lycra look of Spandau Ballet--style club kids? This is no time to get nostalgic, though. The most creative people find opportunity in crisis. And this special supplement to Time is dedicated to 12 such individuals???women in the business of style who take innovation seriously and look beyond the runway or the bottom line for ideas that will revolutionize our definition of luxury. Donna Karan has always drawn on her personal needs for inspiration. She started her company in 1984 with a creative solution for stressed...
Contemporary economic policies have attenuated, though not eliminated, the peaks and troughs of the business cycle. Recessions are not only unavoidable but often beneficial?despite the pain they cause some individuals???to society as a whole. They can purge the system of excesses, failed products and mismanaged companies. Since World War II such slumps have been less severe; social programs like unemployment insurance mean that they are not as painful as in the days of unbridled capitalism...
...believes, creating "one more 'group' to be pitied or exploited or scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity: "Why does everyone say the police? There are thousands and thousands of policemen, and they're individuals???good and bad and not-so-good...
Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals???courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley...
There being no such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals???and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...
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