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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...said Barnet, a History and Literature major. "Students couldn't have been more conservative then." He remained unconcerned with public affairs until the day when the Luces, who lived down the corridor from him in the Law School, were arrested and tried as Communist agents for delivering The Daily Worker under students' doors during their undergraduate years at Cornell. The Luce affair "convinced me of the irrationality of McCarthyism and the Communist scare," he recalled. While working the next year at Harvard's Russian Research Center on his first book, Who Wants Disarmament?, he discovered that the State Department...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Leaning In | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

...cost savings produced by simply sharing information with the shop floor encouraged Tarrytown's executives to move further. In 1972, the plant's supervisors began holding regular meetings with workers on company time to discuss worker complaints and ideas for boosting efficiency. In order to turn the gripe sessions into something more substantive, both sides agreed to bring in an outside consultant to organize worker-participation projects. They chose Sydney Rubinstein, 52, a former blue-collar tool-and-die worker and white-collar engineer, who had become an expert on worker innovation and productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stunning Turnaround at Tarrytown | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...impact spreads. The rule of thumb in the housing industry is that the laying off of a single worker by homebuilders results in two additional layoffs in related industries like cement, copper tubing, building materials and wood. The signs are already ominous. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh reports that sawmills in his state are "closing almost daily." The Western Wood Products Association notes that 141 lumber mills in the twelve Western timber states have already closed and an additional 249 have curtailed production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Housing's Roof Caves In | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...determines the quality of its productions democratically--at the box office. "The customer is always right," and "Business is the freedom of democracy," and "One for all and all for one," these were the axioms of the German dream. And so, when the dream was blighted, Hitler declared that "worker equals artist" and instituted the rule of mediocrity. "He legitimized trash," the ventriloquist says. And we are reminded that Hitler was a failed painter and a man who enjoyed the cinema. "He would watch the latest films from America," the Fuhrer's projectionist says. "He loved John Wayne. But when...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Hitler, Here is Your Victory | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

Lisa Newman, a psychiatric social worker in Toronto, thinks that some survivors have not been able to pass on a coherent value system to their children, because their ordeal under the Nazis was so absurd. "People survived, not for anything they did, but only because of someone's whim. That undermines your faith in your own actions having a sensible outcome, or a sense of a universe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trauma Goes On | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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