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...Nasser's sweeping pan-Arabism and to abandon his predecessor's repressive socialist state. Sadat later felt bold enough to tell colleagues that he felt Nasser had been a disaster for Egypt: the wars, the large Russian presence, the seizure of property, the elimination of the private sector, the concentration camps. In a public ceremony, with Sadat in attendance, the Interior Ministry's large collection of taped conversations was burned. The government began returning private property and Egypt adopted a permanent constitution guaranteeing the rule...
...ways that nobody can quite foresee. Writing in a new bimonthly magazine, Regulation, published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute in an effort to keep track of federal rulings, Social Critic Irving Kristol argues that many of the zealous regulators have an "ideological animus against the private economic sector. They are inclined to believe that a planned economic system would create a superior way of life for all Americans. They detest the individualism so characteristic of a free society...
Eighty-seven federal agencies and offices with 100,000 workers keep the private sector behaving as Big Brother sees fit. The most important 30 of these outfits have combined operating expenses of $2.9 billion a year. The older agencies?including the Interstate Commerce Commission (founded in 1887), the Federal Trade Commission (1914), the Food and Drug Administration (1931), the Civil Aeronautics Board (1938)?impose limitations on particular industries. The newer agencies?the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), OSHA (1970), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972)?issue orders to institutions across the board. Their...
...brother Wendl Thomis, a New York computer software expert. They had given themselves a name, Microcosmos, like a rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea: the use of computers in games. Invited back, they brought a working model of the gadget that became Code Name: Sector. Doyle wants to make a million dollars so he can afford to write books on astronomy and invent on the side...
Wondrous as they are, the new games are not without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic...