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This view of Japanese corporations has long been the familiar refrain of U.S. businessmen seeking to explain the economic success of Japan. Now, however, a much less recognized proposition is being advanced: the real secret of Japan's success is better management, especially in personnel policy. That is the thesis of an inscrutably titled book, Theory Z, by U.C.L.A. Management Professor William Ouchi that will be published in April by Addison-Wesley...
...going to bars, restaurants, concerts or the theater. On weekends, partying gets serious with straight vodka the most popular beverage. Sexually, the Soviet student is surprisingly puritan. Because birth control is not available--abortion is the most common kind of contraception--most Soviet students taking part in higher education refrain entirely from sexual activity. Although the Great October Revolution took place more than 63 years ago, the Western sexual revolution has yet to arrive...
...father had said. "You don't know what you're getting into." This time when Paul called, Lewis said in mock seriousness, "Maybe you'll listen to your old man from now on." Despite her vast relief that her husband Barry was safe, Barbara Rosen of Brooklyn echoed a refrain heard often among the other families. "The servicemen who went over in that rescue attempt were the true heroes of this entire Iran crisis," she said, "because they went over knowing full well that they might not come back." Eight of them died in the Iranian desert in April...
...What we are observing is the consequence of 15 years of increased military spending by the Soviet leadership. Clearly, the task ahead for us is the management of Soviet power. We can no longer view every deleterious event that occurs in the context of Soviet duplicity. But we cannot refrain from challenging illegal, blatant Soviet intervention creating terror and blackmail in the Third World. On Soviet Intentions. The next...
Talks between Catholic prelates and British officials also failed to produce concessions on the prisoners' other demands: the right to wear their own clothes, to refrain from work, to have free association with each other, to organize their own educational and recreational facilities, to receive one visit, letter and parcel a week, and, finally, to have parole tune restored that was lost during the dirty protest. The government appeared to give a bit on the clothing issue, saying that prisoners would be allowed to wear "civilian-type" clothes. But they were to be issued by the prison, which...