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...Dover Beach the same place as Arnold's? Certainly the disjuncture between feeling and intellect--or science and emotion--has only seemed to widen since the mid-19th century. The transition from the industrial society to what Daniel Bell called the post-industrial society, consisting of services rather than manufacturing, has resulted in a difference of occupations but not of attitude; people are more than ever the bewildered children of progress. The past year alone has produced enough scientific inventiveness to shake the spirit for a lifetime: the first baby from a frozen embryo, surrogate mothers, genetic transfers between animals...
...fascinating exercise was called Red Dawn. In the guise of a sort of right-wing adolescent version of For Whom the Bell Tolls, it is an allegory designed subtly to reverse the moral onus of the Viet Nam War. The U.S. is invaded by Communist forces (Cubans and Nicaraguans in the service of the Soviets), and the teen-age American heroes and heroines take to the Colorado hills to form a guerrilla band. The Americans become the Viet Cong, the little guys, the underdogs fighting for their own land. The Soviets become the oppressive great power (the Americans in Viet...
...Yaacobi: "We don't need new (economic) doctrines from Washington. We don't need preaching, messages or 'talking papers.' " Peres, however, read Shultz's admonishments in a different light. "The Secretary compliments this government," he told an Israeli radio audience, "but he also gives us a statistical warning bell. He says that if you don't do more, and do more quickly, you face a serious, immediate and urgent economic problem...
...industry was more transformed in 1984 than telecommunications. In the boldest deregulation experiment of all, the Bell System carried out a courtmandated plan to break up into eight pieces: a shrunken AT&T, which kept its long-distance network, and seven regional companies to provide local service. The immediate results of the split were increased competition and confusion. Long-distance rates fell by 6% as AT&T battled with MCI Communications, GTE Sprint and other rivals. At the same time, though, the average cost of local service rose by 8%. Customers were befuddled by multipage bills, bewildered about whom...
...which is challenging IBM in the computer business, entry into the competitive world was rough. To cut costs, the company eliminated 11,000 of the 253,000 jobs in its AT&T Technologies branch. The stars of the divestiture were the seven Baby Bell companies. They earned $5 billion in the first nine months of 1984 and were favorites on Wall Street...