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...first justification for corporate recruiting is individual. For most students recruiting this term, social justice and corporate recruiting are not mutually exclusive and so going into the private sector is not necessarily blameworthy...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...second justification deserves more examination. Guccis plan to give back to their community in their private life. But very few actually end up breaking out of the private sector because doing so entails a massive pay cut. By the time most Guccis consider such a move, they have responsibilities to their children, their spouses. They have a mortgage and their spending has risen to match income. Luxuries become necessities. As Jerry Seinfeld says, "You can't go back to coach once you've flown first-class...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...other main reason individuals give for entering the private sector over the public sector is a matter of convenience. It is so easy, my friends tell me, to get a consulting-type job. It's the money, the prestige, New York. If someone walked up to you and handed you a $50,000 plus annual salary not counting bonuses, wouldn't you take that...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Which explains why NASA and its peers in the private sector are rotating their high-tech machinery away from the storm, powering down, and wishing on a star that they won't be the unlucky one. "The chance of any one satellite getting smacked by a particle is probably less than one in one thousand," said Don Yeomans of NASA's JPL labs. "But on the other hand, some of these satellites are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, so you do take whatever precautions you can." Even a single direct hit could cause a communications disaster: Remember the malfunction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meteors Are Coming | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...mission (take a deep breath) like so: "We are the positive, values-oriented, problem-solving movement committed to a stronger better America with a better government that uses modern management, relies on faith-based and other charities, pursues modern science and technology, encourages wealth creation through the private sector, and helps people move from poverty to prosperity so we can have better services through a smaller..." and so on, for another 30 words, before the sentence came to a merciful close. Gingrich's vision was always totalistic, if never quite comprehensible. It encompassed simply everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Brave Newtworld | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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