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Taking longer than usual to begin generating the quick smooth moves to the cage that have become the team's offensive trademark, Harvard could secure only a 1-1 tie for the first quarter of play, before fully charging up to take command during the second stanza...
...industrialized and developing nations meet the challenges of the new economic era, they must choose between two essentially different economic systems: the market economy and the command economy. Neither exists in pure form. They overlap, and there are myriad variations within each model. But the difference between them is basic. In market economies the principal business decisions are taken by individuals, who freely exchange their goods or services. In the command economy, the state makes the fundamental business decisions...
...strongest centralized economic planning have fared the worst; those that have adopted some degree of private initiative have achieved the most impressive economic gains. Take the cases of neighboring African countries that have similar peoples, natural resources and other conditions: free-enterprising Kenya has surged, whereas Tanzania's command economy has slumped; the Ivory Coast is capitalist and prosperous, while neighboring Guinea is socialist and impoverished...
...market economies are doing so poorly, are the centrally directed command economies doing any better? No. Capitalism's primary rival, Communism, is afflicted by most of the same ailments, and more. Communist countries are encountering far more difficulty than the West in adapting to the age of economic anxiety. After substantial gains from low bases during the 1950s and early 1960s, progress in Communist economies has sharply slowed in recent years. Technology, innovation and productivity have fallen further behind most Western countries. Economic growth in the Soviet Union last year was about 2%, the lowest since the 1930s...
Naipaul himself meditates in these essays, providing vivid observations, adept analysis, and a command of detail. He brings us in to the ghost town of Montevideo's stopped clocks and neglected monuments, and he makes us weary of the endless muddy river of Zaire. Details in Naipaul's hands naturally, effortlessly fill out his pictures. He uses them to emphasize the very large difference between what he sees in each country and what he hears from their leaders...