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...promising growth industries and bail out a few more important declining industries. In both cases, however, reindustrialization funds depend on workers agreeing to wage restraint. And according to Business Week, "destabilizing" goals such as affirmative action and environmental repair must be deferred, so as not to upset the "social compact...
Last week the Tribune Co. confirmed the bidders' judgment: it decided to keep the building and give the paper away. The prospective new owner is Joe L. Allbritton, 57, a compact (5 ft. 4 in.), Mississippi-born wheeler-dealer whose properties have included Texas banks, California mortuaries, British hotel stock, several TV and radio stations and, from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. in 1978, the Washington Star, which ceased publication in August...
Giugiaro made his first big impression on the American public in 1976 when New York's Museum of Modern Art held a design competition for a highly maneuverable taxi that people could get in and out of easily. Giugiaro submitted a plan for a compact, five-passenger Alfa Romeo with sliding doors wide enough to admit a wheelchair. It cost less than the average American cab, and at the time everyone thought it was a great idea. It still is, but unfortunately, no one in the U.S. wants to manufacture...
From the Administration's point of view, Mubarak's trip succeeded, as Reagan said, in demonstrating that "the friendship between Egypt and the U.S. is more than a compact between individuals, it is a commitment between nations...
Last week Eastman Kodak Co., the world's largest supplier of photographic equipment to the multibillion dollar amateur market, took a giant step toward the elimination of misbegotten pictures. The company's solution is a compact new camera called Disc. Said Modern Photography Contributing Editor David Eisendrath after trying the photo mite: "It is virtually idiot proof...