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...Year's Day, when 60% of Soviet industry was put on a "self-financing" basis. The new system allows enterprises to decide what to produce and where to sell it, but it also requires them to earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed to relying on Moscow's central planners for virtually all business decisions. If employees of successful enterprises can anticipate increased bonuses and shared profits, others face the hitherto unknown prospect of plant closures and severe job dislocations...
...what many voters overlooked, or disbelieved, was that the reforms were supposed to include such innovative measures as the creation of a capitalist- style stock market to promote private investment, and plans to turn over management of state enterprises to trained professionals rather than party apparatchiks. And nearly all Poles agree that economic change, by whatever name, is not only desirable but also desperately needed...
...attackers, who oppose the regime of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, spared the life of a 13-year-old girl so that she could deliver a note explaining the massacre as an assault on "capitalist oriented" values. The victims, two of them Americans, belonged to a Pentecostal community engaged in agricultural production...
...scenes, ready to criticize any failing innovations. While most hardliners were booted out of the Central Committee in this Congress, there are three new leaders in the party's inner circle who are steeped in Soviet training and poised to slow the reforms. Based on the negative effects capitalist initiatives have had on China recently, conservatives already have sufficient gripes...
...humor, beauty and success, Close says she has found it "difficult to balance love and career." Her first marriage, at 21, to Rock Guitarist Cabot Wade, lasted three years, as did her second, to James Marlas, a Manhattan venture capitalist. The man in her life now is Producer John Starke, 37, who worked with her on Garp and is her partner in developing film projects. The two are expecting their first child in April or May. Unlike Alex but rather like her favorite heroine, Jenny Fields, the defiantly unwed mother of Garp, Close has no plans to marry...