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...seems, was a difficult man to love. Rarely showing any personal warmth, he treated his three children distantly, frequently annoyed guests by refusing to pay taxi fares, and once asked Black guest artist Roberta Flack is she "did floors." Yet, lifelong didactic and male chauvinist, he managed to command universal love and respect...
...response to these attacks, and to heavy artillery duels with the Israeli-backed Christian forces under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian guerrilla forces to go on full alert. At midweek, he summoned Arab ambassadors in Beirut to describe Israel's actions in southern Lebanon as "systematic genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people...
...also on the losers of the first-round vote. Though Giscard and Mitterrand captured the greatest number of ballots in the first vote, thus eliminating the eight other candidates for the presidency, two of the los ers, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, still command a formidable electoral following. The final choice of their supporters may tip the scales in next week's runoff...
They are, in other words, a professional managerial caste that considers itself trained-and therefore destined-to take command of the nation's corporate life. This might prove a misfortune of some magnitude. For although the M.B.A.s generally see themselves as the best and the brightest, and the most energetic and ambitious as well, a growing number of corporate managers look on them as arrogant amateurs, trained only in figures and lacking experience in both the manufacture of goods and the handling of people. Worse, the flaws in the polished surface of the M.B.A. now appear to reflect flaws...
Training students to take command and turn an ever bigger profit fulfills a venerable tradition, but as President Bok declared in a report on the business school in 1979, the corporation has become more complex and difficult to manage in recent years. Its executives must learn to deal with fractious minorities, imperious bureaucrats, foreign coups, angry environmentalists, OPEC maneuvers and, most perplexing of all, an increasingly widespread sense of uncertainty about the corporation's role in the nation's life. Said Bok: "Most classroom discussions