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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen noted that Paramount dismisses "this claim of 'culture' as being nothing more than a desire to perpetuate or entrench existing ((Time)) management disguised in a pompous, highfalutin' claim." Wrote he: "I understand the argument . . . But I am not persuaded that there may not be instances in which the law might recognize as valid a perceived threat to a 'corporate culture' that is shown to be palpable (for lack of a better word), distinctive and advantageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One for The Books | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...judge also rejected Paramount's contention that Time executives were using the editorial-independence argument simply to entrench their positions. Wrote Allen: "There may be at work here a force more subtle than a desire to maintain a title or office. Many people commit a huge portion of their lives to a single large-scale business organization. They derive their identity in part from the organization and feel that they contribute to the identity of the firm. The mission of the firm is not seen by those involved with it as wholly economic, nor the continued existence of its distinctive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One for The Books | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

They all had misgivings about working somewhat within the system, because they so desperately wanted to change it. The important thing is they didn't use their education to enrich the rich or to entrench corporate monopolies. The didn't embrace the system; they worked to chip away at its faults. They realized that their talents, if devoted to the right causes, could indeed make a difference, even if it was only a little...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Lieutenant Second-Class? | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

...tenured Black professors at the Law School). Said Clark, "This is a university--not a lunch counter in the Deep South." President Bok's continued efforts to purge the Law School of Critical Legal Studies (itself an outgrowth of '60s critical thought) threaten to polarize the faculty and entrench very conservative, corporate-oriented legal education. When will Harvard start to encourage rather than to suppress independent and political thinking? When will Harvard abandon its unseemly subservience to corporate and political power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter From the Student Strikers of 1969 | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...ESOP surge has raised some eyebrows in Congress. For one thing, ESOPs were never intended as a way for corporate managers to entrench themselves against takeover bids or for corporate raiders to enrich themselves. For % another, the cost of providing the tax breaks is running as high as $3 billion a year at a time when deficit cutting is urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Own the Place | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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