Word: allison
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...past several months, debate about the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy has focused on a plan claiming to offer the United States a "Grand Bargain." The brainchild of former Kennedy School of Government Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, the ambitious plan was jointly conceived by a team of Soviet economists and Kennedy School policy experts...
...simple: Western aid to the prostrate Soviet economy in exchange for a commitment to radical political and economic change. The numbers being bandied about are $20 billion or $30 billion a year, three or four billion of that from the U.S., for five years. "The strategy," write Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in the current Foreign Affairs, is to "create incentives for leaders . . . to choose a future consistent with our mutual best interest by promising real assistance for real reform...
...Allison and Blackwill say Grand Bargain money sent to the Soviet Union should go for "general balance of payments support, project support for key items of infrastructure . . . and the maintenance of an adequate safety net." That's more or less what the Japanese money invested in U.S. Government bonds is already going for. It would not require instructions from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard for the Japanese to say, "Look, if you want us to keep financing your economy...
...think it's better that we have so many choices," says Allison Anchors, 24, a veteran New York City rock-club employee. "When I was visiting in Florida, it was so cool. All styles and races totally mixed. There would be dance-offs, with three homeboys going against three Army guys. Everyone doesn't follow one music anymore. People are getting more diverse. They finally woke up. Or got bored." Christina Amphlett, lead singer of the spunky, post-punky DiVinyls, says, "The whole rap thing has been a rhythm revolution. It's always good to have diversity...
...joint paper, as well as the initial drafts developed independently by the Harvard and Soviet teams, will be presented by Allison and Yavlinsky to U.S. officials. Gorbachev examined the Soviet plan last week...