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...since even 28% of those who described themselves as liberals agreed with most of the five propositions. But the Yankelovich organization repeated a set of questions first asked in a 1974 poll for TIME that were designed to measure discontent and resentment about change in American life. These comparisons confirm a swing to the right...
That M.B.A. restlessness, particularly dismaying in societies where security and tradition still dominate business, is helping confirm an increasing foreign skepticism about American management itself. Why is it, for example, that so much of U.S. plant and equipment has become considerably older than that of Japan? To newly assertive foreign experts, the misguided emphasis on short-term profit seems to blind U.S. managers to the need for more research and development; moreover, they appear unable to develop long-range problems of chronic inflation and soaring energy costs. And why has quality been declining? Partly because U.S. professional managers have cared...
...Globe article discrediting the reports quoted be reluctance of FDR members in Mexico City to substantiate the report. A representative from the New York-based Casa El Salvador explained his fear to confirm publically the claims: "Of course we trust our sources--we and the FDR believe that a massacre probably occurred. But since it is so difficult to get more details, we are reluctant to commit ourselves and say 'This is exactly what happened.' We have to be cautious, to protect the little credibility that we have in the States...
...nearly impossible to obtain further details about the massacre report, to investigate the site and confirm the charges. The El Salvadorean government has prevented the Legal Aid Commission and other church groups from visiting the area. The regime justifies sealing off the region because it's dangerous to visit. A spokesman from the El Salvadorean embassy in Washington denied that the government had closed off the area because it had something to hide...
Thrust innocently into a national spotlight she had not sought, the actress held a news conference at Yale to confirm that she had received many "unsolicited" love notes from Hinckley. None had mentioned the President, she said, and none had contained any hints of violence...