Tilting At Windmills

...Without the pressure to maximize profits, privately held companies can pay decent attention to matters like product quality, worker safety, and environmental protection, considerations that the publicly held corporation can argue it has a duty to its stockholders to minimize in the name of higher profit...

...The Communists forced a referendum on the issue...

...Beer, wine, and liquor have a lot of odd things in them that are not presently disclosed on labels-fish glue, for example, is used as a clarifying agent in wine...

...The company tried streamlining its anvils, downsizing them, painting them with racing stripes, and even stamping ‘Made in Japan’ on them...

...work hard for this kind of agreement is that the American people are not well informed about the Palestinian’s case...

...It’s also well above the national average in deaths due to cancer...

...121 in East Harlem, that if they would not drop outas most of the children in their neighborhood were accustomed to doing-and would graduate from high school, he would pay their college tuition...

...And there is, after all, a stunning array of demands on their leisure time, the evidence of which can be found in a publication called Physicians’ navel and Meeting Guide...

...A record $10.8 billion was spent to make companies private in 1984, compared to just $636 million in 1979, according to Time, which adds, “This year’s pace is even more furious .” The major motive is to avoid takeovers, but going private can also improve our capitalist system in profound ways...

...There’s also a column, “Mario Andretti on Autos,” which contains statements like these: “When you get into cars such as the BMW or the Mercedes, which I know many doctors prefer...

...Some of these additives, such as sulfites, are dangerous to everyone...

...But valuing seniority over performance has had a more significantly negative effect on the quality of work of union members in our great industries, teachers in our schools, and civil servants in our government...

...Now the marginal umpire feels better...

...This may be because any other kind of change would threaten the position and influence of the establishment...

...EconEcology factors ecologysensitive economic information into CHANGE RESEARCH interpretive analysis to account for the impact of the earth’s corrective reactions to the civilizing actions of humanity that upset the delicate balance of nature...

...The charge: drunk driving...

...The Post ran Mathews’s story on page 18...

...I grew up identifying with Jews because of their persecution by the Nazis and have always been a supporter of Israel...

...Layoffs, or the threat thereof, inspired by periodic outbreaks of congressional hostility to foreign aid over the years left the agency with an embarrassingly high proportion of marginal veterans protected by seniority, as too many of the able young have either been fired or resigned in anticipation of dismissal...

...Jay Mathews of The Washington Post wrote an excellent article about Odeh’s death and about how upset Arab-Americans were at the lack of press coverage it received while pages were being devoted to Klinghoffer’s murder...

...If the bill passes the House,” Baker continues, “each F15 fighter will have an anvil installed behind the pilot’s seat, and Trident submarines will be required to carry seven!’ Baker is kidding, but the world of Washington is full of similar stories that are absolutely true...

...It says: “The MCV medical study tours include some of the most scenic spots and best hotels in Italy...

...The latest delay is until next May, by which time the civil service lobby will doubtless have mustered the votes for another postponement...

...A lot of other people in the media are, I believe, like me in this respect...

...There could be no better illustration than the results of the November 5 election, in which a moderate Democrat was elected governor, a black, lieutenant governor, and a woman, attorney general...

...A campaign of “massive resistance” against desegregation, inspired and influenced by James J. Kilpatrick’s editorials in a Richmond newspaper, enjoyed the support of the great majority of Virginia’s whites...

...be spent like this-with someone else, namely the taxpayers, footing the billon giving away your services to some black kid in a grimy ghetto...

...We have to find a just solution to the problem of the West Bank...

...Now comes a survey by Louis Harris and Associates reporting that the median work week, which was 43.1 hours in 1975, is now 47.3 hours and rising...

...Why waste time that can S peaking of deductions, I have a new hero...

...Some of you may remember my concern about the Reagan administration's sellout to the alcoholic beverage industry on the issue of contents labeling...

...There have been...

...And most of us find Arafat repellent...

...can’t cure...

...This leads to a faith in our leading public relations firms that just might be misplaced...

...Shortly after he had spoken on television in favor of the PLO, he opened his office door and a tripwire attached to it set off a bomb that tore through the lower part of his body, killing him a few hours later...

...But the presence within it of certain words can, in my case at least, be decisive, especially if two or more of the words appear together...

...This is tragic...

...Charles Peters...

...Not a bit...

...billion people...

...1 am indebted to Robert Samuelson for reminding me of my favorite quote about statistics...

...It's by the late British economist, Sir Josiah Stamp, who said: "The government is very keen on amassing statistics...

...another car not to be overlooked in this area is the Jaguar I’ But the main subject of the publication is vacations that are tax-deductible because they are presented under the guise of continuing medical education...

...It had never been taken away from him...

...The California Supreme Court couldn’t quite swallow that and proceeded to overturn the bar’s recommendation and disbar the lawyer...

...The unique CHANGE RESEARCH methodology he created reveals the rate, degree, and direction of development in any targeted field of industry six to eight months in advance of all other analysis methodologies...

...All that suffers is the quality of work...

...Asked why he had started smoking when he was young, he replied: “I did it to be macho .” The terrible irony is that the most successful macho cigarette commercial in history, the Marlboro Country ad, used the theme music from one of Brynner’s films, “The Magnificent Seven...

...The change may have been gradual in coming, but the goal was and had to be radical change...

...I once failed a law school exam because I thought “publicly owned” meant something like TVA instead of General Motors o General Electric...

...For them, as with the players, the World Series was a reward for skill and effort...

...On March 15 of this year, again while drunk, this time at the wheel of a patrol car, he struck and killed a 79-year-old man and injured another person on a Manhattan street...

...The establishment is wrong...

...This may come as a shock to many who know me as a businessman, but I have always considered tax deductions to be a form of welfare...

...L i k e most people, I felt a surge of pride when we captured the Achille Lauro terrorists...

...I can remember seeing only one black, a graduate student, on campus...

...The decision to toss a document into the trash should not, of course, be made lightly...

...He is a businessman named James E. Buerger who writes: administration, I was asked what my feelings were about the three-martini lunch...

...This was in the great tradition of the Cuban Missile Crisis, where we also succeeded in being tough without shedding blood...

...Have you heard about Eugene Lang...

...Actually it can mean either, but as we’re using it here, it means the GMs and the GEs...

...The states average 11.9...

...China is introducing a merit raise system,” reports Donald Sutherland of The Washington Post, “replacing longevity of service with performance on the job as the primary criterion for salary levels...

...We’ve done 116 WorldNet [programs] and the estimate, based on various extrapolations we get from the field is that over two billion people have watched WorldNet...

...Now a federal judge has ruled against the administration and held that all ingredients must be disclosed on the labels...

...TILTING AT WINDMILLS I f you watched the recent major league playoff and World Series games, you may have noticed that the umpires missed more than a few calls...

...Buerger happens to be the publisher of Travelhost magazine, a publication that for both its distribution and advertising is totally dependent on the travel industry...

...This is part of his “Professional Profile” as written and distributed by Gray: has earned international respect as the leading authority on the dynamics of change...

...There’s nothing wrong with us that good P.R...

...T h e District of Columbia has 534 physicians for every 100,000 people...

...And guess what...

...At a time when we have 7 percent unemployment, companies should be hiring the jobless instead of working their present employees harder...

...But last year the Italian prime minister, Bettino Craxi, cut 4 percent from the moving staircase...

...The moving staircase” is the Italian version of the automatic wage increase to compensate for increases in the cost of living...

...This is a comfort to all of us who imbibe now and then and would like to know what we are doing to ourselves...

...The people supported Craxi...

...Sounds pretty good so far, doesn’t it...

...The Nicaraguan Contras are not among my favorite causes, but, in one respect at least they have my sympathy and that of everyone else who has ever thought a fundraising dinner might be the answer to his organization’s financial problems...

...One reason for this modest performance may be that umpires for these post-season games are selected without regard to ability...

...billion people...

...Another article is entitled I applaud the three doctors “The Medical College of Virginia: Learning, Involvement, and Sightseeing in Italy...

...At the time of the arrest, Sgt...

...D id you see that haunting television interview with Yul Brynner as he was dying of lung cancer...

...who came up with this sensible and humane idea, but I fear it is doomed...

...The 15-day journey begins with three days in Venice and moves to Bologna, Florence, Sorrento, and Rome...

...On October 12, he was arrested in Westchester County...

...DONALDSON: Two MR...

...It is interesting to note that the Chinese, who invented the bureaucratic system more than 2,000 years ago, have now seen the light on seniority...

...practitioners...

...I n 1978, Sgt...

...MR...

...Take the case of Gray and Company, one of Washington’s best-known P.R...

...WICK: Yes we do...

...The people who brought The case of La Scala Mobile provides further evidence of the possibility of radical reform...

...The private company can thus avoid many of the worst defects of American capitalism...

...The Nicaraguans got President Reagan as their speaker and charged $250 to $500 a plate...

...These dreadful figures come from Drs...

...They took in $219,525...

...The Agency for International Development has been an example of the sad result of policies that favor seniority when reductions in force occur...

...about this change didn’t start out saying we should be a little bit nicer to the colored folks...

...The Reagan administration, in one of its occasional flirtations with wisdom, has tried to do something about the last...

...Its summer 1985 issue contains 256 pages...

...But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman who just puts down what he damn well pleases...

...Of course the context of the shipboard hijacking made that event more dramatic, but do you even know about Odeh...

...It produced a single product-anvilsthat did not lend itself to a high-tech economy...

...More companies are going private, buying up their publicly owned stock...

...Sherman still held a valid driver’s license...

...We have noted from time to time that professional groups, like bar and medical associations, tend to be excessively lenient in cases of misconduct by their members...

...I recently saw a dramatic example when I went down to my old law school at the University of Virginia to make a speech...

...You may recall our recent article on USIA’s WorldNet by Mark Schapiro...

...The committee amended a military procurement bill to require that all major weapons systems be fitted with anvils...

...Padua, Pompeii, Naples, and the Isle of Capri provide beautiful and interesting excursions included in the travel package...

...It is a new discipline in futures research and the only one that utilizes EconEcology-a term he coined for the symbiotic revitalization of the old science of economics by merging it with the newer science of ecology...

...He was right...

...I answered then, as I would today, that I am opposed to such lunches as a taxdeductible item...

...Nathaniel Bunyon-Knight is vice president in charge of its Change Research Division...

...On reflection I feel even greater pride that we were able to do it without violence...

...It would also be cheaper for the companies, since they would be paying wages at regular rates instead of overtime...

...These culprits definitely include dynamics, symbiotic and holistic, not to mention proaction and EconEcology...

...He would also have to pass a legal ethics examination...

...But, whatever the reason, those of us who suggest that radical reform is both needed and possible are usually greeted with a raised eyebrow and a changed subject...

...He’s the millionaire industrialist who promised the sixth-grade students of his old school, P.S...

...Businessmen often complain about our unfair social welfare system, when, in truth, the business people are the greatest recipients of welfare in America .” Splendid sentiments, you say, but isn’t “hero” a bit strong a label for their author...

...The net proceeds were $3,000...

...He gets to go to the Series just like the good umpires...

...The quality of umpiring is, to be sure, not one of the graver problems faced by the Republic...

...They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root, and prepare wonderful diagrams...

...Its Office of Personnel Management has proposed new rules governing layoffs that would give more protection to the able and less to the senior...

...The result is that there is a pronounced pro-Israel tilt to coverage of the Palestinian problem...

...All 51 of the students are still in school in the eleventh grade, and all but one plan to go to college...

...Frederick Sherman of the New York City police department pled no contest to a charge of driving while drunk and ramming seven parked cars in the Bronx...

...BRINKLEY: That’s ‘ T h e American Anvil Corporation was a company in trouble,” writes my friend Ross Baker of Rutgers in the September issue of American Demographics...

...It used to be that only the best were selected to umpire these games...

...A privately held company is not subject to the same pressures to emphasize short-term gain and maximize profits that a publicly held company is...

...WICK: Over two MR...

...E. Fuller Torrey, Eve Bargmann, and Sidney Wolfe, who have a proposal to do something about them: that all physicians be required to spend two hours per week doing pro bono work as a condition of licensure in the District of Columbia until such time as the majority of the health indices have reached the national average...

...HOW A TOUCHSTONE Speaking of change, for years now we've been reading those Future Trends books that assure us that the amount of time devoted to work is steadily shrinking...

...A possible example of this tilt is provided by the cases of Leon Klinghoffer and Alex Odeh...

...The average for the 50 states is 185...

...In the fifties, while I was attending the university, the state of Virginia was almost totally reactionary...

...It should be known by everyone in America, because what it shows is that hope and the assurance of a fair chance in life cannot only change behavior but change it radically-and for the better...

...The District has a higher overall death rate than the national average...

...Radical reform is possible...

...The regulations were withdrawn by the Reaganites...

...P ublic relations is the religion of the modern age...

...It seems clear to me that this solution must include democratic selfgovernment, which would, of course, give control to the Palestinian majority, accompanied by a provision for enough Israeli military outposts on the West Bank to guarantee the security of Israel...

...The Carter administration had proposed regulations requiring the disclosure of these ingredients...

...But reflection also reminds me that we aren’t going to stop Palestinian terrorism simply by being tough...

...CHANGE RESEARCH provides bottom-line, holistic knowledge upon which sound projections and wise decisions for effective proaction can be based making it possible to prepare for and influence the future whenever possible...

...The Byrd machine dominated the state’s politics...

...Klinghoffer’s death was a front-page story for days...

...Nothing worked until Anvil was taken over by a financier named Armand Mallet, who decided that a few judicious company contributions to the members of the Senate Armed Services Committee might succeed where all else had failed...

...Then they started adding up the bills, which included $71,163 for food and $116,938 in consulting fees...

...Others, like casein, to which 250,000 Americans are allergic, can produce dangerous reactions in those sensitive to them who don't realize what they are drinking...

...Recently, the California State Bar, confronted by the case of a member who had murdered his wife by shooting her ten times, recommended that his punishment consist of a twoandone-half-year suspension followed by another two-andahalf years of probation...

...Here’s his reply and the ensuing dialogue: MR...

...Today the situation is completely-shall we say, radically-different...

...The back cover has a Rolls Royce ad...

...All they need to have is six years seniority and then they are automatically given postseason assignments on a rotation basis...

...It is comparable to the COLAS here, which sophisticated Washington will assure you are politically untouchable...

...Shortly after it appeared, Charles Z. Wick (see Letters) was asked by Sam Donaldson on David Brinkley’s show if he had an estimate of his audience...

...half the human race...

...The District has an infant mortality rate of 25.1 per thousand live births...

...Thus there is the “1985 Oncology Tour” sponsored by the New York Medical College and featuring stops in such centers of medical scholarship as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangkok...

...It can also ignore the higher profits that moving the plant to Juarez, Mexico would yield in favor of keeping the plant right here in Gary, Indiana, so Americans won’t be thrown out of work...

...What most ghetto young people see today is little or no chance of a fair shake, little or no chance that they will be able to go to college, so why should they try, why not give up, why not stop going to school, there’s no point to it...

...Tell this story to your friends...

...Most astounding in terms of change since the fifties was the endorsement of the black by the Fraternal Order of Police...

...Unfortunately, OPM’s reform proposal, which would have tended to prevent such unhappy consequences, has been blocked repeatedly by Congress...

...Respectable Washington is dedicated to the idea that only incremental change is possible...

...One a JewishAmerican, the other an ArabAmerican, they were both murdered by terrorists within a few days of one another...

...It is also easier for a privately held company to decide to make less profit now so that its prices can be more competitive, which will in turn increase its market share along with its ability to hire more workers...

...He was a college instructor in California who devoted much of his life to working for peace in the Middle East...

...Its tuberculosis case rate is more than three times the national average...

...And “privately held” can be like your grandfather’s familyowned company, where he cared more about making good saddles and having happy employees than about making a lot of money...

...They said discrimination must end, period...

...Several years ago a survey of Washington psychiatrists indicated that their interest in doing pro bono work was minimal to the point of absurdity...