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...responsible government would be, the regime is clearly worried about the catalogue of social ills ?increasing alcoholism, crime, divorce and youth problems?not so much as a breakdown in ideology but as a breakdown in social discipline. It is also concerned that these problems are occurring just as the U.S.S.R. becomes more vulnerable to "contamination by agitation and propaganda" from the West. Shortwave broadcasts by the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, BBC and Deutsche
...using what they have more efficiently, the system is simply not working well at all." In the five-year growth plans, production targets are as often as not chosen because they look impressive. The Soviets have, in effect, created an economic system that values the production of 100 clunking, breakdown-prone trucks more highly than that of ten smoothly running ones, simply because the plan demands higher unit production and makes no allowance for quality...
Scott has been teaching for 40 years, and much of the current talk about teacher burnout irritates her. She knows firsthand all the problems and questions that beset teachers. "There's a breakdown in family life. Everyone does his own thing," she admits. "The number of children actually doing the work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework...
...fractures suffered in an accident whose cause remains cloaked until novel's end. There are other details with delayed explanations. Why is this father of three and husband to the beautiful Pauline Hornby wearing lacy panties while talking to the police? Why is Pauline hospitalized with a nervous breakdown? Is Dr. Dr. Mueller (he has two degrees) really an ex-Nazi living on Ibiza...
...next problems with the low-interest mortgages, Sullivan explains, is that they create more capital for the type of buyer who would purchase a condominium, thus "accelerating the trend toward condominium conversion" that city leaders fear will kill Cambridge's diverse neighborhoods. A breakdown of the 22 purchases under the program show that 12 of the units purchased have been condominiums or co-ops; city regulations limiting new condominium conversion, however, may make that less of a problem in the future...