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...providing the Kremlin with credit ! to buy Western consumer goods for resale in the Soviet Union for rubles. While some economists dismiss this as a palliative, it could bring several benefits. The goods -- clothing, household electronics, large items like autos -- could be sold at whatever the market would bear. This would absorb much of the $670 billion of savings "overhang" locked up in banks or stashed away at home because Soviet shoppers can find nothing worth buying. Sopping up that excess cash would make subsequent restructuring, from price reform to the convertibility of the ruble, less likely to produce hyperinflation...
...what has happened since November. We never expected the greed and scrabbling that we see now." In her Dresden studio, which is cluttered with scythes, sickles, knives, spikes and other graphic symbols of violence, hang pictures of suffering female figures. It is women, she predicts darkly, who will bear the brunt of a changing society, and her art is about the "hopelessness of their condition." This month in a Dresden gallery, Hampel opened a new exhibit of her work, and, she says, it is very, very angry...
...Never in our history have we lived so well," says former Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff. Statistics bear him out. In the past three decades the supply of goods and services has quintupled and consumption quadrupled. The living standard since the '50s has improved at an annual rate of 4%. Net monthly income has expanded tenfold in that period, hourly wages almost eightfold. In the early '60s, the average family spent half its income on food and household goods; today the figure is slightly over 20%. Nearly as much -- 15% -- is devoted to leisure activities and holidays...
...returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland include a fishing fleet and a home-building enterprise, as well as Hanna-Barbera's largest animation studio, where Polish artists draw the cels for Yogi Bear and Flintstones cartoons...
...teachers to submit ideas for creating 49 new schools from the ground up. Seven are now in the planning-and-building stage. More innovations are sure to come. School districts may find that giving teachers and parents the right to make decisions about education is like dancing with a bear: once you start, you cannot decide to stop...