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...innovations, Gorbachev's greatest challenge remains the economy. He has vowed to double economic output by the year 2000, though his policies have not yet begun to produce measurable results. Some critics say the reforms proposed so far involve more tinkering than reconstruction. Still, Gorbachev has launched an impressive array of initiatives to get the economy moving while preparing the way for more structural changes...
...overall winners and losers from deregulation form a mixed gallery, but a few generalizations can be drawn. By and large, consumers who make enough money to take advantage of lowered prices in sufficient quantity, and those canny enough to understand the widening array of choices, will reap the most benefits. Conversely, poor people, who are strained by high minimum-balance requirements at banks and steep local phone rates, may be faring the worst. Says David Schwartzman, economics professor at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan: "Low-income customers have been the real losers in deregulation. They...
Contagious disease, from cholera to gonorrhea, has traditionally been fought with an array of weapons: education, vaccination, quarantine, testing for infection, reporting those infected as well as tracing and notifying others who have been exposed. Today general AIDS information programs are getting under way, but no vaccine exists. Mass confinement and quarantine are dismissed as impractical, even impossible. It is the last three options that are provoking heated controversy, as the uproar over testing shows...
...collective wisdom behind all such statements envisions human nature as existing in and requiring for its survival the most delicate array of balances between religion and science, reason and emotion, democracy and aristocracy, the individual and the group, self-interest and general welfare; that is, all the balances that found their way into the Constitution's basic text. On the whole, that original, unamended text is a model Enlightenment tract, carefully checking and balancing as if in imitation of the moderate universe in which 18th century Europe trusted. One of the framers, John Dickinson, even saw the proposed relationship between...
...moment, the plan has hit even rougher waters at home from those who think a challenge is being thrown to Iran without full consideration of the risks. A broad array of critics has come out opposed. Henry Kissinger, despite his sensitivities to Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows...