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Most important, as a working laboratory of labor relations and manufacturing know-how, Saturn will help answer one of the most pressing questions of the 1990s: Can America compete with the Japanese? Automaking may be a relatively old field, at least compared with supercomputer building or gene splicing. But the automobile, with its 10,000 parts and ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management...
...same one that nurtured Ike. Was the unspoiled land and Abilene and the Eisenhower family -- and so many others like them in that era -- a one-time event in our history, now swept away by excessive wealth, greed, waste, softness and self-pity? Jackson confesses he has no certain answer. But he is worried by what he sees throughout the nation. When he talks about it, he sounds like Ike might sound were he alive...
...long ago, Jackson went to Harvard to lecture, and he asked his audience if the university was educating people "to go home, not necessarily where they came from, but to some place where they can dig in and support meaningful things, not just upward mobility." Jackson got no firm answer, nor did he expect one. He carries the question with him wherever he travels to make people think again about what they may have lost and what they really treasure. He seeks a new generation that can find and grasp the "great and priceless privilege" that Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps...
...this still leaves me with some questions that only an expert like Safire could answer. I have been sending him anonymous letters for years about the confusing terminology of my peers, but with no response. I think it is time to open this debate to the public...
...should have done more in the mid-1980s," said Reich, a former economic adviser to Governor Michael S. Dukakis, "but the answer now certainly is not to shoot ourselves in the collective feet...