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...essential to promote recovery. Yet, as the Williamsburg summit showed, that cooperation is simply not forthcoming, and therein lies the greatest danger to the industrialized world. The Europeans believe that high American interest rates and the unstable monetary system that these rates have supposedly engendered are at the root of the economic mess. The Reagan Administration, though, is convinced recovery in this country will suffice to allow the United States to "pull" its European partners out of the recession...
...McCollum, former chairman of Continental Oil Co.; Robert J. Kleberg Jr. of the King Ranch; Jesse Jones, publisher, real estate developer and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. during the New Deal; J. Erik Jonsson, former head of Texas Instruments; George and Herman Brown, who developed the giant Brown & Root construction firm; Retailer Charles Tandy of Tandy Corp.; and Arthur Temple, who retired in January as chairman of Temple-Eastex and vice chairman of Time Inc. Three of the four living members, McCollum, Noel and Temple, attended ceremonies last week inaugurating the hall...
...series finds the root of Chaplin's gift in outtakes
...addressed this issue in Time, writing that "the primary cause of instability with current weapons systems is the disproportion between warheads and launchers...there is no effective or intellectually adequate solution to this problem except to seek to eliminate multiple warheads within a fixed time, say 10 years." The root of the problem is similar to the dilemma encountered by the imaginary video game player. If you face an enemy with fewer launchers (ships) than you have, but more warheads (missiles), then conceivably he can knock you out in a first strike. Therefore, in a crisis situation, you could...
...jokes, "When I started studying economics, I was 6 ft. 2." During the Carter Administration, Reich was policy planning director at the Federal Trade Commission, an agency often criticized for imposing oppressive rules on businesses. He rejects the Reaganomic notion that Government regulation and high taxation are the root causes of U.S. economic problems. Instead, Reich heaps most of the blame on the executives who run American corporations. Since the days of Henry Ford and the Model T, Reich points out, American managers have relied on mass production. Relatively unskilled workers on long assembly lines put together standardized products. That...