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Caribbean and Central American nations require a multi-faced development program designed to modernize and diversify agriculture and labor-intensive light manufacturing. As Barbados' ambassador to the U.S. said of Reagan's approach: "We cannot accept the thesis that any one approach can solve all our problems. Development is a little more complex than that...
Japanese and American government officials sharply differed last night at a Kennedy School Forum in their explanations of the two countries' multi-billion dollar trade deficit...
...matter how those complex issues are finally resolved, the coming battle in telecommunications will be a multi-billion-dollar struggle of giants. AT&T is already one of the world's leading producers of an array of highly sophisticated electronics equipment and computer-driven data and information-processing equipment. Yet the outside world rarely learns of its prodigious high-tech output, since virtually all of it is consumed internally by subsidiaries and affiliates throughout the Bell System. Now the company can begin offering its products to anyone who wants to buy them...
...rivals, the shake-up will create both opportunities and challenges aplenty. Virtually overnight, a giant new competitor has loomed up to cast its shadow over their markets. To stay in business, even such multi-billion-dollar corporations as IBM, ITT, RCA and General Telephone & Electronics will have to run harder and innovate faster than they ever have before. Meanwhile, just behind the American companies are Japanese firms like Nippon Electric that are becoming more important every year in the rapidly growing field of high-technology communications...
...Ivies were evicted to give complete control of Division 1-A to the College Football Association, a splinter group including 61 of the nation's most powerful football schools. The top dogs in college football--concerned above all with controlling the game's multi-million-dollar television contract--will no longer be at all accountable to universities that place football in its correct perspective in campus life. With this concession to the professionalism already rampant in the sport, the NCAA will likely deemphasize the regulation and enforcement of recruiting violations and other transgressions...