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Although no longer the factory for the industrial world, the United States still carries the largest share of the burden for sparking global development. Muller attributes the stagflation that has mired national growth rates in a steady through to a vicious cricle of inflation and low productivity and likens the American scenario to the sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn...
These new administrators--whose average age slightly exceeds the national speed limit--share other traits as well. They are conservative, and they are distressingly corporate in their outlook. For the most part they shun leisure suits, which must distress Jerry Falwell and company, but their political philosophies seem very far to the right of skewed national spectrum. Actually, their political philosophies are comparatively unimportant--they seem sure to be loyal team players, who will follow the admonitions of a veteran leading...
Famous author and future Pope also share family ties; Toomey's sister was once married to Campanati's brother. French, English, Italian and American blood mix in this distended family saga. Blood also flows in the trenches of World War I, the alleys of Prohibition Chicago, the death camps of Nazi Germany, the bush of contemporary revolutionary Africa...
...seven stories in this volume sometimes share titles (two are called Lost Letters, two The Angels). They all revolve around a small set of preoccupations: the burden of the past and the limits of the healing power of laughter. Time is measured back and forth from the year 1968, when the growing freedom of the Czech people, the fabled Prague Spring, was crushed by the Soviets: "Russian tanks invaded Bohemia." Recent history was revised downward, and those who had been prominent in pushing reforms (including Kundera) found themselves officially erased into nonpersons. Observes one character: "The only reason people want...
Because the two nations are the world's two largest trading powers, they share a natural position of leadership, Button explained...