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There are, however, serious flaws in the Marxist-Leninist economic system. Communist countries say they have abolished unemployment?but at the cost of heavily overstaffing every office and factory with workers who seldom can be fired for failing to produce. Bureaucratic controls further cripple efficiency, and managers have little leeway for innovation. Consumer goods are still shoddy and chronically scarce. Long lines form immediately in Warsaw, Prague, Havana, Moscow and other Communist cities at rumors that a shop is about to receive a shipment of such coveted goods as shoes, fresh fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens...
Eastern European states offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
...Miller has proved to be an inept administrator with exaggerated forebodings, he nevertheless has some grounds for anxiety. He heads one of the toughest unions on earth, whose members seldom hesitate to use their fists or a weapon to back up an argument. When Miller became president, he had to contend with U.M.W. officials still loyal to Tony Boyle. In such a situation, physical safety can never be taken completely for granted...
Morarji Desai, India's Prime Minister, urging journalists to be generalists: "An expert seldom gives an objective view. He gives his own view...
...typical alumni interviewer is a middle-aged preppie, financially successful, who is primarily interested in seeing students of his own ilk admitted. He seldom if ever has any extensive contact with Third World people. He continues to judge success in terms of a white upper middle class experience, and condemns Third World people for not living such an experience. The admissions office makes it clear that alumni interviews and the alumni are vital parts of the process, yet nothing is being done to change the all-white and unfair character of this and other parts of admissions and recruitment...