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...evidence, besides those missives to the White House, that Reagan's plea for voluntarism struck a national chord. John H. Filer, chairman of the National Alliance of Business, notes that 100 corporations immediately joined the N.A.B.'s first major fund-raising drive to explore ways of reducing chronic unemployment, and that top executives of 65 life insurance firms gathered two weeks ago to discuss possible corporate solutions to social problems. In Denver, six coalitions of volunteers have quietly formed to seek ways of helping people hurt by the budget cuts...
Harvard has agreed to end a decade-old dispute with Cambridge by paying for past repairs of chronic leaks in the Cambridge St. underpass, which the University built...
...grain traders are saying that the yield may plunge to a calamitous 170 million tons, or 28% less than the 236 million-ton goal set forth in the current five-year plan. The chief reasons for the pessimism are drought in the Ukraine, the Volga Valley and elsewhere plus chronic agricultural mismanagement. Soviets quip that the first member of the Politburo to die will be blamed for the mess in agriculture, but it is no laughing matter. Says Marshall Goldman, the associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "The Soviet Union finds itself with a disaster of unprecedented...
...beyond the usual archaeological digging and dusting, is to convert information about the past "to practical use in order to improve the economy." With a modest investment of labor, Kendall insists, Inca irrigation could pay rich dividends to this overwhelmingly poor country, where food and potable water are in chronic short supply. "I don't say that this scheme is going to empty out the slums of Lima, get people back on the land, recreate an Inca civilization," she says, "but it's possible to make this land fertile-and other land in similar circumstances-using the same...
...pseudonymous New York analyst whose good-natured fatalism forms the tough core of Malcolm's book: "No one likes to hurt people-to cause them pain, to stand silently by as they suffer . . . That's where the real wear and tear of analysis lies-in this chronic struggle to keep oneself from doing the things that decent people naturally and spontaneously...