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Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms. It employs more than 7,000 people and earns a profit -- about $4.7 million in 1988 -- on sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull...
But most are unlikely to be on the dole for long. Potential employers quickly descended on the camps, seeking to hire everyone from welders and machinists to carpenters, bakers and locksmiths. In the Schoppingen area near the Dutch border, there were 5,000 job proposals chasing just 1,500 refugees...
Europe's new assertiveness poses a special challenge for Washington, which has long been accustomed to treating Western Europe as a junior partner, particularly when it comes to managing the global economy and East-West security. At last May's NATO summit meeting, President Bush asserted traditional U.S. leadership with...
TV viewers have grown accustomed to the annual late-summer promotional blitz for the networks' fall premieres. But this year the hucksterism has gone far beyond the usual "ABC's the One" and "Come Home to NBC" sloganeering on- screen. Ads for network shows will turn up everywhere from billboards...
The survey will probably blast many viewers' assumptions about what Japanese art should look like. Forget about tributes to Mount Fuji or poetic evocations < of the changing seasons. These members of what one Japanese critic has called "the post-Hiroshima generation" have grown up in a technology-driven, fiercely consumerist...