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...they pull on sneakers and sweatshirts to spend an hour or so in the company gym, puffing on a jogging track or pumping away on a stationary bicycle. Employer-sponsored exercise is fast becoming an integral part of the workaday world, as businesses recognize that their financial health can depend on the physical health of key employees as well as on the condition of plant and equipment...
...Shah that could hardly have been more cozy. In 1972 Richard Nixon decided to lift all restrictions on arms sales to the Shah. Soon billions of dollars' worth of the most sophisticated weaponry and aircraft in the U.S. arsenal began pouring into Iran. America's decision to depend on the Shah as its surrogate policeman in the Persian Gulf was perceived as even more crucial in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, when Iran disregarded the boycott and continued to sell vital petroleum to the West. In retrospect, one top U.S. policymaker of that period reflects...
...same time, many city apartment dwellers have skirted the effects of rising gasoline prices-the fuel is almost two times costlier now than in 1967-because they depend on buses and subways. Farmers, small-town folks and suburbanites are not so fortunate, since they need automobiles. But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs-up 117% since 1967-by producing much of what they eat. As a result of Medicare and Medicaid, the elderly and the poor have largely escaped the exploding cost of hospitals (medical-care services have risen 122% since...
...Engelhard affair causes us to confront the dilemma shared by all private universities and non-profit institutions which depend on funds from outside sources for survival: the acceptance of gifts from particular private and corporate sources may unduly compromise the university's role in the wider community and its autonomy in making moral and educational decisions. This dilemma is especially acute for a School of Government where decisions to honor donors by agreeing to conditions of gifts, such as names, might conflict with the ideals such a School seeks to teach...
...Laredo's storekeepers had to depend on the locals for patronage, they would starve. Nearly all of their customers are Mexicans who cross the border to buy American, European and Japanese products, which they consider superior to Mexican goods. Brand-conscious Mexicans think the General Electric refrigerator that is produced in the U.S., for example, is much better than the one GE makes in Mexico...