Word: exoduses
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...costly blow to the 163 U.S. companies, including Mobil and Union Carbide, that still operate in South Africa. Taxes will consume an estimated 72% of the money that U.S. firms earn in South Africa, vs. 57.5% before the new law. The rise is likely to speed the already swift exodus of corporate America from the land of apartheid...
...subjects of his art include Egyptian legends, alchemy, the Cabala, the Holocaust, the story of Exodus, Napoleon's occupation of Germany, Albert Speer's architecture, the mythic roots and Nazi uses of German romantic imagery -- dark woods, lonely travelers, ecstatic moral conversions in the face of nature -- and much more besides. Among Kiefer's spiritual heroes are Richard Wagner, Frederick II, Joseph Beuys, Painters Arnold Bocklin and Caspar David Friedrich and Novelist Robert Musil. Kiefer is not an artist of ordinary ambitions. But his ambitions are not bound up in the cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world...
...Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...
Astronomical real estate costs have already led to an exodus from Manhattan by the "back offices" of financial-service companies, as well as some corporation headquarters. So many companies have been lured across the Hudson to New Jersey that Koch, with characteristic moxie, posed for an ad showing him sealing off the Lincoln Tunnel. "The rats are leaving," he growled recently, unwittingly casting his city in the role of sinking ship...
...exodus will accelerate as companies realize they cannot resupply their work force with the products of city schools. While corporations are demanding more literate, computer-sophisticated workers, New York's 940,000 public school students are afflicted by a one-third dropout rate. The blue-ribbon Commission on the Year 2000, which studied New York's needs, has called the public schools a "deteriorated system that fails to equip a shockingly large proportion of the students who enter it for the world in which they will live...