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...shown to the highway patrolman who has just seen the Target run a stop sign. The computers apparently can't deal with a complicated concept like the name Otto, but they will know almost instantaneously whether F18332, etc., has forgotten any parking tickets or whether the 22-digit bank account includes any checks that bounced...
...tune of $2.385 billion ($1.397 billion in the past year), spread among 20 large and 200 small companies and a dozen universities. While this is mere microchips to the better than $100 billion-a-year defense industry, SDI already has something in common with more entrenched systems: by one account, three-fourths of all prime contracts in space defense work awarded since 1983 have gone to states or districts represented by members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees and Defense Appropriations subcommittees...
...legislation requires minute scrutiny, and the Ways and Means plan had many minor and major changes in the fine print. The proposal would keep the top annual contribution for an Individual Retirement Account at $2,000, but it would reduce a taxpayer's IRA write-off by $1 for every dollar the person puts into a 401(k) plan, another popular tax-deferred savings plan. The committee felt the Government could recoup revenue by limiting how much money taxpayers put into both plans at the same time...
Italian Communist leaders have praised the Chinese for asking the right questions about why Soviet-style Marxism has failed economically, and a highly sympathetic account of the Chinese reforms appeared in East Germany's official newspaper Neues Deutschland. Svetozar Stojanovic, a Yugoslav social scientist now serving as a visiting scholar in the U.S., goes so far as to say that "in the eyes of many people, the Chinese have become the new vanguard in the Communist world." More surprising still are the views of Silviu Brucan, professor of sociology at the University of Bucharest in Rumania, a nation formally allied...
...private businesses with sales of $8 billion employed 15 million workers, or 4.5% of China's nonfarm work force. Roughly 1.7 million collectives employ an additional 100 million workers; in several provinces they have become the dominant form of business. Nationwide, though, more than 85,000 state-owned enterprises account for a heavy majority of jobs and four-fifths of China's industrial output. Until very recently they operated under a system that Mao had copied from Stalin: ministries in Peking assigned all raw materials and dictated all investments, told every factory manager what and how much to produce...