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...fallen from 25 to the dollar to 70. Demirel also served notice on Turkey's sluggish, over-manned state enterprises, which account for more than half of the country's industrial production, that they would have to operate under market conditions. Last year government payments for public sector deficits accounted for one-third of the national budget and were a major factor in the soaring inflation rate. To raise foreign exchange, eliminate shortages and speed up both production and investment, the Premier opened up hitherto closed sectors of the economy to foreign investors with a built-in guarantee...
...American tradition that goes back to community barn raisings three centuries ago, philanthropy is now big business, but is it always a truthful business? Cheerful givers usually know precious little about a sector of the economy that in 1978 claimed a record $39.6 billion-an average of $180 for every man, woman and child in the nation -for donations to the Red Cross, United Way, CARE, the March of Dimes and some 800,000 lesser organizations raising money in the name of charity...
...Games as a target. Many supporters of the Games argue that a boycott for any political reason is totally wrong and inappropriate. "If the Olympic Games are to survive," says Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee (u.s.o.c.), "they must be apolitical and remain in the private sector...
...dealt with through quiet diplomacy as has been the case in protecting some of the dissidents in Yugoslavia and even in Chile) without the public humiliation and fear of internal explosion in what is still largely a passive population no longer numerically dominated by the Great Russian sector of the population. To humiliate the Soviet Union and to take chances on whoever may be the successor to Brezhnev is extraordinarily destabilizing at a time when Pakistan appears to be expanding its nuclear potential, when Israel and even Japan evidently have nuclear weapons or at least the potential of building these...
...start generating the profits needed to pay back its loans, the U.S. taxpayer could get stuck with a portion of the $1.5 billion tab. Assessing the action of his colleagues, Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who is a leading advocate of keeping government out of the private sector, called the bill "the biggest mistake Congress has ever made...