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...Indeed, a Western diplomat in Moscow cautioned that "it is probably a mistake to build a universal field theory" around the outcome of this week's meeting, whatever it turns out to be. But an upbeat response would at least indicate that the Soviets have decided to abandon their present policy of icy silence. Said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, a leading advocate of a somewhat more flexible U.S. negotiating stance: "I would argue at this stage that the Soviet Union recognizes that it must have a dialogue with...
Since 1968, when the Hungarians began to reorder their economy and abandon strict Soviet-style central planning, the country has pieced together a new system of economic management that mixes state ownership with individual enterprise. Hungarian agriculture, for example, has prospered by encouraging the cultivation of private plots on state-organized cooperative farms. The government is giving factory managers the power to make many of their own decisions about production quotas and reinvestment of capital and to reward efficient employees with bonuses. The latest reforms have given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists...
...presidents of two Central American universities and representatives of the student unions of Central America called upon the Reagan Administration to sign an agreement to abandon American interventism in the region, before a crowd of about 140 yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government...
...past 38 years, I am appalled at the damage my peers have done with their erroneous predictions [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 27]. The blame must lie with the schools of business administration and their brash M.B.A.s. Their ardent embrace of econometrics and the computer has caused them to abandon the philosophical concepts of economics. Business schools should re-examine their precepts before the dismal science disappears...
...school with a faculty of 40 (15 if which are part-time) that has not made a tenured appointment in seven or eight years. At least two of the seven planned appointments are for tenure spots. Among the departing faculty is former Div School dean Krister Stendahl, who will abandon his teaching post to become bishop of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden...