Word: researching
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nonetheless, the workers' revolt shouts out Communism's economic and ideological failures and reminds the world that the glue of Soviet hegemony is force and intimidation, not shared purpose. Says Seweryn Bialer, head of Columbia University's Research Institute on International Change: "Previous challenges to Soviet control have come from above, from the leaders of satellite nations. The Polish challenge comes from below, from the workers, the only class of which the Soviet Union is afraid...
Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., maintained that cutting the runaway growth of federal spending is not politically impossible...
...native of New York City, Feldstein is a professor of economics at Harvard and president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the official monitor of the American business cycle...
Frequently mentioned as a possible member of Republican Administrations, Feldstein is an advocate of less Government regulation of the private sector of the economy . A major focus of his research has been on the American Social Security system. He contends that the Government's retirement program has transferred vital investment capital into current consumption and thus hindered the long-term development of the economy...
...Ouidah finds his jeweler's eye playing over 19th century West Africa. The book is a novelization of the life and death of a footloose Brazilian named Francisco Felix de Souza, who flourished as a slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...