Helms-Hunt Senate Race (A): Preview

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

The 1984 race between incumbent North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Governor Jim Hunt was the country's most expensive and, arguably, meanest Senate race to date. In 1982, Jim Hunt was leading the polls with a 14 to 20 point margin. Two years...

Covering Oliver Sipple (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case describes the press coverage of Oliver Sipple, the man who stopped Sara Jane Moore from shooting President Ford in San Francisco in September, 1975. Sipple was aggressively pursued by the press after the incident, especially on the...

Covering Oliver Sipple (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case describes the press coverage of Oliver Sipple, the man who stopped Sara Jane Moore from shooting President Ford in San Francisco in September, 1975. Sipple was aggressively pursued by the press after the incident, especially on the...

Royal Kingdom of Nari

Publication Date: January 1, 1986

This is a two-player, multi-attribute negotiation exercise. The companion case is Geodesic Dynamos. Nari is an oil-producing state that wishes to upgrade its air force. With falling oil revenues, it decided to pursue a barter strategy and has...

The Geodesic Dynamos Case

Publication Date: January 1, 1986

This is a two-player, multi-attribute negotiation exercise. The companion case is the Royal Kingdom of Nari. One of each pair of participants will represent Geodesic Dynamos, a defense contractor, attempting to reach a barter agreement under...

Revving Up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC (B: Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In September 1982, Harley-Davidson, the only remaining US-based motorcycle manufacturer, petitioned the International Trade Commission for temporary relief, in the form of steep tariffs, from high levels of Japanese heavyweight motorcycles and...

Revving Up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In September 1982, Harley-Davidson, the only remaining US-based motorcycle manufacturer, petitioned the International Trade Commission for temporary relief, in the form of steep tariffs, from high levels of Japanese heavyweight motorcycles and...

Revving Up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In September 1982, Harley-Davidson, the only remaining US-based motorcycle manufacturer, petitioned the International Trade Commission for temporary relief, in the form of steep tariffs, from high levels of Japanese heavyweight motorcycles and...

The Urban League and the Youth Subminimum Wage

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In the spring of 1984, despite the economy's spectacular recovery from a severe recession, teenage unemployment remained a major problem: 19.4 percent of all teenagers and 44.8 percent of black youth, were jobless. At the urging of the Reagan...

President Cleveland and the Pullman Strike

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

On July 3, 1894, on orders from President Grover Cleveland, Secretary of War David S. Lamont ordered the commanding general of the Military Department to prepare the US army at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, for immediate deployment. Lamont told...

Note on Competitive Bypass

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In 1986, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a private utility company serving most of northern and central California, was facing the loss of many of its biggest and best customers. The threat came not from conservation, general economic...

Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In March 1985, Ford and General Motors asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reduce federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards from 27.5 miles per gallon to 26 mpg for the 1986 model year. For the first time...