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...interpreting the escapades of Bill and Mary, reporters mistakenly portray the Harvard Business School as the root of all management evil. H.B.S. is an educational, not a correctional institution. The tactics used by Agee in the Bendix-Martin Marietta acquisition debacle bear little resemblance to what we are taught at Harvard. If some of the school's better-known graduates, like Cunningham and Agee, have acquired a reputation for backstabbing, they possessed the trait long before their arrival at Harvard...
French cuisine, in its classic forms, is mostly verbs and modifiers: the mixing, processing and transforming of raw material. High Japanese cooking, whose root is the austere kaiseki style associated with the tea ceremony, is by contrast all nouns. It is devoted to the thing-as-such, presented in small units with the precision of the razor knives that cut it and the picky exactitude of the little chopsticks that bring it to the mouth. Its decor is astringent, not sweet. Japanese cuisine's simplicity is a very high fiction, requiring too much skilled labor...
There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...
While indexation fans Brazilian inflation, one root cause of rising prices is excessive government spending. State-owned companies, which are involved in everything from energy to real estate and generate roughly two-thirds of Brazil's economic output, have become bloated and inefficient. In the past decade their expenditures have more than doubled, even after adjustment for inflation. Under pressure from the IMF, Brazil has agreed to cut the budgets of state-owned companies by 3% and to slash their capital spending...
...1950s. Then, as now, the Soviets had to be stopped in every area they were perceived to be on the move. And the problem now, as then, is one of ridiculously polarized perception. For as the case of Central America shows, the USSR is simply not the root of all the world's problems. The USSR seems to act more as a typical superpower best on securing its borders and establishing allies than as a fanatical breeder of revolution. This reality must be taken into account by American foreign policy makers...