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...stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital," says Mel, "is having two." The sufferings of Jarvik-7 patients, further emphasized by the death last month of Swedish Recipient Leif Stenberg, 53, have led a growing number of doctors to demand a moratorium on permanent implants. Dr. William DeVries, the only U.S. surgeon authorized to perform permanent implants, disagrees; he has announced that he intends to try Jarvik-7s in three more patients. None of the families of DeVries' earlier patients has criticized that decision. Indeed, the Schroeders say they...
...history of this production typifies the common-sense paths that producers are testing to escape the boom-or-bust cycle on Broadway, where high operating costs all but demand that shows have ecstatic reviews or a huge advance sale to survive. Rappaport started as a production of the Seattle Repertory Theater. Next, that company's artistic director, Daniel Sullivan, staged it off-Broadway in June. Word of mouth built, and so did sales. Late last month Rappaport transferred to Broadway, where it takes its place as the funniest and most touching play yet this season. --By William A. Henry...
...cozy fire moved none of the substantive issues closer to solution. On the paramount question of arms control, though both have proposed a 50% cut in offensive nuclear weapons, agreement is still being blocked primarily by Reagan's insistence on continuing his Strategic Defense Initiative and Gorbachev's vehement demand that it be abandoned. It was notable, however, that despite Gorbachev's pre-summit threat that nothing else could be accomplished unless this demand was met, he chose to present himself as moderately satisfied with the summit and to continue the dialogue--leading most observers to award Reagan a summit...
...great extent emasculated what would otherwise have been a vigorous economy. The more centralized, the more rigid; the more rigid, the lazier the people; the lazier the people, the poorer they are." Managers now are supposed to hustle in response to the same signals--interest rates, market demand, prices, profit--that guide Western businessmen. And just as the state will no longer take all profits, it will eventually stop subsidizing losses. Deng's planners bluntly assert that they are prepared to let inefficient state enterprises go bust...
...along with free enterprise come the whims of the customer. The garment factory's profits, normally about $30,000 a year, fell to $15,000 in 1984, when the collective overestimated the demand for army-style clothes. "We have to be much more responsive to the market," admits Director Ru, Liao's boss. After the relative freedom of laboring in the fields, some workers have trouble adjusting to the tyranny of the assembly line. "You can't just go out to the well whenever you want, but I am getting used to it," says Liao...