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...Moscow in the Warsaw Pact. Writing in the American magazine World Policy Journal, Brucan opines that if China succeeds in building a modern economy "the Kremlin will then be confronted with a dramatic choice: to cling to the old ways and rely more and more on military power to exert its influence, or to take the bull by the horns and proceed with a radical change in both economic policy and global strategy. The issue of leadership in the Communist movement will depend on that choice...
...according to Jury Verdict Research Inc., a private group. The average verdict in product-liability cases now tops $1 million; preliminary figures for 1985 indicate that the average verdict in medical malpractice cases also exceeded $1 million for the first time. These giant awards, insurers say, exert an influence out of proportion to their numbers. They set a target for plaintiffs and their attorneys to shoot for, and move defendants to offer high out-of-court settlements rather than take a chance on what a jury might...
...action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent just to get through the studio gate. The goal for women directors is to persuade the male power elite that they are not some exotic Other, not the Not Quite Us. Just moviemakers...
...problem in Nicaragua in a way that it can be solved, through diplomacy as well as military pressure, and then for the Congress to support the contras as a goad to diplomacy and to do so without attaching conditions that would mitigate or eliminate the pressure they actually exert on the Sandinistas...
Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said last year that Summers has tried to exert much more influence over Kirby and Gross than his predecessors, noting that “they feel constraints from across the Old Yard”—where Mass. Hall sits...