Word: orders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raises the questions of whether people are turning to localism for its own sake or whether they are really responding to high quality art that was being overlooked in the major art centers. In order to determine that you simply have to go place by place and artist by artist and see what it looks like. I still tend to hold a somewhat conservative view that there's something to be said for the stimulating environment that a place like New York or Chicago provides...
...will see in the 80s that there is no solution within the present institutional order. I predict wage and price controls on a permanent basis in the 80s. The conservatives who argue you can't have price controls without dislocations are right. We'll have controls, and that's where planning comes in. Planning without controls. Because of problems generated by capitalism, these controls will necessitate more controls and more planning...
...Japanese total industrial output was about three-quarters of that of the United States, with half the population or about one and one-half times as much industrial output per person as in the United States. The standards of living and the average income was of roughly the same order as in the United States. Japanese investment in new industrial plant and equipment already rivalled the United States (it totalled twice as much per capita), but with overall economic growth--especially industrial growth and productivity--increasing much more rapidly than the United States, Japan had the momentum to become...
...what follows Khomeini is already a popular guessing game in Tehran, Washington and doubtless Moscow. Few of the potential scenarios seem especially favorable to U.S. interests. One possibility is a military coup, led by officers once loyal to the Shah and now anxious to restore order. That might seem unlikely in view of the disorganized state of the army and the popular hatred of the old regime, but the danger apparently seems significant to Khomeini; he is enthusiastically expanding the Pasdaran
...unrest in at least three ethnic areas?those of the Kurds, the Azerbaijanis and the Baluchis?presented continuing threats to Tehran's, or Qum's, control. Many Western experts believe Khomeini shrewdly seized upon the students' attack on the U.S. embassy, which he applauded but claims he did not order, as a way of directing popular attention away from the country's increasing problems. It gave him once again a means of presenting all difficulties as having been caused by the U.S., to brand all his opponents?believers in parliamentary government, ethnic separatists, Muslims who questioned his interpretations of Islamic...