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...avowed goal is to replace "administrative planning"--that is, direct orders on what and how much to produce--with a looser system of "guidance planning." Central planning, explains Huan Xiang, director general of Peking's Center for International Studies, "seriously hampered the initiative and creativity of enterprises and workers and to a 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...
...issue goes far beyond nuclear testing. Actually, on-site inspection is not essential to a test ban, since seismic devices placed outside the Soviet Union can detect most underground nuclear explosions. The Soviets have even shown a willingness in the past to allow seismic sensors on their soil with direct satellite links to the U.S. Inspections of missile installations are a different matter, however, and have become a major sticking point of arms-control negotiations...
Another subject that raises questions is U.S. air-traffic controllers. "We're on the border in air-traffic control," says Russell Ray Jr., president of San Diego-based Pacific Southwest Airlines (P.S.A.). "It's getting close." Some 14,000 controllers now direct U.S. air travel, down 13% from the size of the work force just before President Reagan fired strikers in 1981. Of those now employed, only 57% are considered fully qualified, as compared with 82% who held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record...
...China under Deng Xiaoping was excellent. It would have been even more interesting had you mentioned that the concept of making all land common property and paying rent to the state for its use under a "contract system," with surplus production going to the free market, is a direct application of the theory published by the American writer Henry George in Progress and Poverty, in 1879. The parallel is so close I wonder whether Deng has the book in his library. Douglas Denby, President John Cabot International College Rome...
...unable to recall who he was. "What? No, no, son. We're going to try to win this game." Singletary appears strangely civilized out of uniform, which is more than Tackle Steve McMichael and End Dan Hampton can say. Most of his statements are as direct as a third-and-one collision with battering Ram Eric Dickerson. "To be honest, I didn't like Buddy very much at first, but there's nothing I wouldn't do for him now. When he comes up to you and says, 'I guess I had you wrong. I really thought you could...