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...workaholic "drops out of the human community," Oates says, and "eats, drinks and sleeps his job." Every morning, he wakes at a set hour. At his office, he is "merciless in his demands upon himself for peak performance" and "without qualms about telling off both high and low" when their work is sloppy. Arriving home late, he heads for his study "to make the best of the remaining hours of the day," unable to tell the difference between simple loyalty and "compulsive overcommitment" to his employers. How does a workaholic know that he is one? Sometimes he finds out only...
...scheduled airlines that make up the International Air Transport Association are girding for their toughest dogfight. Solidarity started crumbling late last month when a dozen carriers began advertising $199 to $220 round-trip youth fares between the U.S. and Europe, lopping as much as $253 off regular peak-season "economy" prices. Now there are reports that the "big four"-Pan Am, TWA, Air Canada and Britain's BOAC-will quit IATA if the cartel does not approve even broader price reductions for people of all ages at its annual meeting this week in Montreal...
...that -along with more dramatic feats of counterinsurgency-in Viet Nam and other underdeveloped nations round the world. But the Berets' luster has been dimmed by scandal, the war backlash and the withdrawal of the last remaining Special Forces units from Viet Nam last February. From a wartime peak strength of 9,000 men, the Green Beret force has been whittled down to 6,000. Consequently, two pressing concerns within the corps have been how to sanitize its image, and what will be the role of those Special Forces based...
Another potential, but unlikely, problem Restic may have to contend with is that of racial dissension. Tension between the team's black players and the coaching staff grew during Yovicsin's last years, and it reached a peak after the Dartmouth game last Fall...
When the issue of grade reform reached a heated peak in 1969. Bok and a few other Law professors called each member of the faculty at home and arranged discussion groups with students about grading. It was during this same crisis that Bok, at 12:30 a.m., walked in on a "study-in" students were holding in the Law School Library to protest grading...