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...This is really a new initiative," said Kallenbach. "What makes this different is it gives us a good shot at tapping resources available through the private sector...
...world's leading industrial nations are in a race of another kind. Quick to recognize the commercial potential of the new development, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry plans to subsidize private-sector research, and will establish a center in Nagoya to test equipment made from * superconducting materials. In Washington, the Department of Energy has decided to double this year's research support for superconductors to $40 million; it is also compiling a computerized database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House...
...They are taking increasingly solicitous aim at a zaftig audience that wants to look good in anything from size 16 (usually about 160 lbs.) to, well, a lot more than that. Along the way, these merchandisers are reaping impressive profits by catering more assiduously to a roughly $10 billion sector of the fashion market. Says Nancye Radmin, founder of the Forgotten Woman chain of 17 shops for larger customers: "Everyone thinks that when a woman gains weight, her pocketbook and brain shrink. This just...
Communist officials assented to the reforms at least partly because they realize that some private enterprises are inevitable. "Until recently it was generally held that the collectivized public sector was capable of satisfying all the population's demands and that individual enterprise . . . would gradually die out," wrote Economist Ivor Raig in last fall's issue of the journal Sotsiologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Research). Now, he suggested, officials acknowledge that "individual enterprise satisfies to a considerable extent the population's demands in many goods and services...
...There have been recent important changes in the balance between privately and publicly owned mental health institutions, with tremendous growth in the for-profit sector," said Robert A. Dorwart, research coordinator of the Kennedy School's Center for Health Policy and Management, which is conducting the study...