Word: broads
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Analyzing the complex ups and downs of the U.S. economy can be tricky business, requiring an expert's eye for detail and a generalist's feel for broad trends. Senior Editor George Taber, who has headed TIME'S Economy & Business section since last fall, draws weekly on a variety of resources to assist him in this difficult task, not the least of which is his own experience in the field. A former American press spokesman for the Commission of the European Community in Brussels, Taber frequently covered business news as a TIME correspondent in Paris and went...
...crucial issue of worker self-management. Under pressure from the union, the government had already put its own limited proposal on the issue before parliament. But Solidarity was now insisting on a far more sweeping plan that would give local workers' councils at most industrial enterprises broad decision-making powers, including the right to choose their own plant managers. Should the legislators fail to call a referendum and instead enact the government bill, the union threatened to boycott the law and "carry out the reforms...
...slumping stock market was enough to persuade Reagan last week to try new versions on some parts of his economic program. During a 75-min. meeting on his first morning in the Oval Office after the Labor Day weekend, Budget Director David Stockman told the President that broad new cuts in federal spending would have to be made soon if Reagan were to have any chance of fulfilling his promise to erase
Friends say "learning something" is almost an obsession with Gould. An associate who has worked with him for five years says, "The amazing thing about Steve's work is that because of his broad range of interests, he's always learning from his own writing." And Gould's interests--and his output--have been broad indeed. In 1975, after publishing nearly 50 articles in scholarly journals over 12 years, Gould published his first book, an academic work called, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. (If you think the former recapitulates the latter, think again.) Two years later, he published his first collection...
...kept a watchful eye on a nascent coalition of opposition groups. Following Israel's bombing of the Baghdad nuclear reactor and Beirut, leftist and religious critics began sharing the same platform to denounce Sadat's wholehearted embrace of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace process. The broad purge seemed to reflect an uneasy concern that the regime's detractors were displaying new signs of unity...