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...economy, but this does not necessarily mean setting "new records in producing metals, oil, cement, machine tools or other products. The main thing is to make life better for people." He pledged both to "further strengthen centralization in strategic areas of the economy" and "at the same time . . . to broaden the autonomy of production associations, enterprises, collective and state farms." He would accomplish this, he said, in part by using "such tools as profit, pricing, credit and self-sufficiency of enterprises," all designed to achieve less, not more, central control. Contradictory though his program might be, Gorbachev implied that...
...collect political chits. Kemp has been on the road at least two days a week for the past three years. As a fervent preacher of conservative values and supply-side tax cuts, Kemp believes his appeal within his party's right wing is strong enough to allow him to broaden his base. Instead of simply sounding the Reaganite creed of self-reliance, Kemp stresses that government has a role in caring for the needy. Kemp's neopopulist rhetoric sometimes sounds as if it were lifted from a Jesse Jackson sermon. At a party conference in Grand Rapids last month...
...checks. In one chilling incident, a U.S. citizen seeking top-secret clearance was found dead in his car shortly after he failed a polygraph test. National Security Agency investigators later learned that he had been spying for the Soviet Union. Said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wants to broaden the Government's authority to test employees: "If (John) Walker had known of the possibility of random polygraph tests, I'm certain he would never have dared to become...
Soon, Park said, his wife would go to school to train in interior decorating and he would go to study English and broaden his knowledge in liberal arts. And, oh yes, he nearly forgot: after Korean cars are introduced on the West Coast this fall, he intends to open a repair and parts shop...
University officials said that such an arrangement, although still far from completion, would allow the museum to both broaden the exposure of its public collection and raise needed funds...