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Vest is also expected to uphold MIT's role in the revitalization of America's lagging manufacturing sector. "We felt that anybody who had spent most of his adult life in the state of Michigan would understand that issue," Solow says...
...when the cold war was in full swing. The innocent of the title is Leonard Marnham, 25, a British post-office technician who is drafted into an undercover operation in which the allies are cooperating. And undercover is the accurate word; they are digging a tunnel in the Russian sector to pick up Soviet signals. Leonard loves his work. After living a cramped life in Tottenham, he relishes the rooms "big as meadows" in his government-issue flat and the hip manners of his co-workers. He soon learns that "you did not speak to people unless their work...
Yeltsin called on Brent Scowcroft at the White House. "What is the objective of your visit?" asked the National Security Adviser. With no more encouragement than that, Yeltsin launched into a hortatory rhapsody about how U.S. business could "rescue" perestroika by building 1 million apartments and an entire service sector for the Soviet economy; he also plugged a joint mission to Mars. He talked virtually nonstop for a full hour...
Another problem is that the privatization of Poland's vast state-owned sector, much of it antiquated and unprofitable, is proving much more difficult than most economists imagined. When shares in a profitable import-export company were offered to the public recently, only 20% were purchased. A parliamentary committee is studying other ways of unloading state-owned companies, including a novel plan first discussed in Czechoslovakia that would create a capital market by giving shares to each citizen. The shares could later be traded on a stock exchange. "We have to remember that society has been pauperized," says Andrzej Bratkowski...
...Individual roles will change and become less predetermined," Wilson said. "In both home and the workplace, the setting is less affected by gender, by race, by socio-economic class. We must ask men to play more diverse roles in the voluntary sector and in the home...