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...just the prestige of the title that carries the weight with the voters the next time around. The mayor has at his command a car and a driver, three staff positions, a summer job program employing 150-200 boys, an expense account for travel and for wining and dining dignitaries, $1000 more pay than his fellow councilors, free office space, and control over the city hall switchboard...
...most annoying thing was not Paul K. Rowe's review itself (everyone is entitled to an opinion, however wrong), but the customary godlike attitude that the Crimson takes toward its readers. Are we really intended to take Jeff Flanders' command to "throw away all the reviews you've seen of it" (Flanders is better equipped to evaluate a film than Reed, Crist, Canby, Kael, et al) seriously, or is it another example of the Crimson's weird, self-serving sense of humor? Are Handel, Bach and Schubert "second-rate music"? Why the duplication of reviews rather than the "dissenting minority...
...cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war," he declared. Teng evidently relishes his new power. Shortly after his rehabilitation, visitors to China said he seemed a bit hesitant and unsure of himself. Now, say more recent visitors, he seems confident and very much in command...
...members of whom some 2,000 are active fighters) and Syrian-backed Saiqa (about 2,000 members, including 1,000 fighters). Opposing them are such "rejection front" groups as George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (estimated membership: 3,500), the P.F.L.P.-General Command, led by former Syrian Army Captain Ahmed Jebreel (150 hard-core guerrillas) and the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front (about 100 members...
Managing a modern corporation has put an increasing strain on the time, skills and knowledge of the chief executive. As corporate complexities multiply, more companies are turning to a management setup that attempts to broaden corporate leadership by drastically altering the traditional chain of command. Instead of one man at the pinnacle, the companies are creating the so-called "office of the chairman," which is composed of three, four or even five top officers who share responsibility for running the company and transform the old method of solitary decision making into a kind of group think. Last week the idea...