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...government, "created a severe bottleneck in the development of sophisticated industry in Israel." Around half of the 1,000 students who graduate each year from the 27 medical schools in the Philippines go abroad, leaving one doctor tending to as many as 20,000 people in some of the archipelago's rural areas...
...Moscow, the government newspaper Izvestiya charged that the airport was part of a Western plan to turn "the archipelago into a powerful military outpost." Even the British were not of one mind. Labor M.P. George Foulkes, a member of the opening delegation even though he opposes Westminster's estimated $750 million-a-year defense allocation to protect the islands, declared that the celebration was nothing more than "a load...
...shouts and screams are over. Murdoch and Davis agreed last week to buy the nation's largest independent television archipelago, with stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Boston. The price tag is $2 billion, making the acquisition the second largest in broadcasting history. (First place belongs to the $3.5 billion takeover of ABC by Capital Cities Communications in March.) The new owners will immediately sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five...
...machines can also be a little spooky, metaphysically spooky. There was a tale about the archipelago called Nova Zembla, which was discovered in the 16th century, high in the Arctic Circle. A ship's crew was stranded there, frozen in. The air was so cold, the story said, that when the sailors spoke, their words crystallized in mid-air and remained there. Presently a thaw arrived, and all the words, warmed up, came cascading down in a tremendous, unintelligible din. The owner of an answering machine knows that there may come a moment when the machine...
Unlike the Philippines, Indonesia has enjoyed political calm, for the most part, during the 18-year tenure of President Suharto. But the archipelago faces economic challenges. Falling oil prices have cut Indonesia's earnings from its chief export, and the country's current account deficit will be about $4.2 billion this year. On the bright side, agricultural production is strong. Narongchai predicted that Indonesia will achieve 4.5% growth...