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...more balanced tone reemerges in the final chapter. The best hope for improvement in Soviet-American relations, the authors write, lies in a reaffirmation of the SALT agreements limiting offensive and defensive weapons systems. But the U.S.'s relationship with the Soviet Union will never be friendly so long as the men in the Kremlin define security in terms of domestic and international coercion. Genuinely cordial Soviet-American relations rest on the unlikely assumption that Mikhail Gorbachev wants to liberalize the Eastern bloc and the even more remote possibility that the General Secretary can liberalize the Eastern bloc...
...book, however, is only incidentally biographical. In digesting countless reviews, Horowitz has provided a valuable look at the state of American music criticism during the first half of the century. And in a separate chapter, he also provides a musical assessment by examining Toscanini's recordings in formidable detail. But the author's most important contribution is his analysis of Toscanini's pervasive influence on what music was programmed and the way it was performed: the conductor's determination to play certified great works defined, and confined, the repertoire for the next generation of musicians. Igor Stravinsky, whose music Toscanini...
...software collection offers much greater potential. Statistical packages such as Statpro and SPSS-PC provide almost all the number crunching/manipulating possibilities of a mainframe statistics package. Rather than spend several c-notes for a program which might be used only for one chapter of a senior thesis, students can simply use the program...
...high-tech has-been. The Minneapolis-based company was piling up a staggering 1985 loss of more than $567 million (revenues that year: $3.7 billion). Bankers were refusing to extend the company any more short-term credit, while Wall Streeters were whispering that the firm might have to seek Chapter 11 protection. But today Control Data is running smoothly again, thanks to an overhaul in which the company dumped unprofitable sidelines, sharpened its focus on computer technology and cut its payroll from 54,000 at the end of 1984 to 34,000 in 1986. "This is one of the most...
...fourth-ranked B.C. Another thrilling--if ugly--chapter in the teams' 70-year rivalry for the record books...