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...threshold of its third century, America is afflicted by a "drift from dynamism," which threatens to allow the nation's global leadership to slip into "less sophisticated hands, at a perilous moment." So concludes the Economist's deputy editor, Norman Macrae. A longtime expert on world economics and political affairs, Macrae, 52, first gained attention in the U.S. in 1969 by writing a penetrating survey on the American dilemmas of race and poverty. Now he has produced a provocative if discursive report suggesting that the U.S. may be at the close of its industrial empire. He argues persuasively...
...computer expert who has worked for DRI calls the operation "incredible." "They have one of the largest computer selections in the world, and the computer alone must be worth over $5 million," he said...
...despite these University restrictions many professors have chosen to work for the Saudi Arabian government on their own. A.J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and an expert on Middle East economics, took a leave of absence last year to work on a five-year plan for the Saudi Arabian Central Planning Office. Although Meyer will not comment on remuneration for his work, a source in the Economic Department says that "Arabia is incredibly lucrative and Meyer would be crazy if he were not making lots of bucks from the Arabians...
...proportion of the population possessing firearms have lower serious crime rates than states with a lower proportion possessing firearms." He also ran individual regression analyses on the crimes of murder, assault, and robbery and found the same results. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and a national crime expert, said last week there is no evidence that reducing the availabilty of guns will reduce the overall serious crime rate...
...company want to conspire, say, to fix interest rates on loans, they can do it without having the same person serve as a director of both. On the other hand, insurance companies in particular have been anxious to put bankers on their boards, claiming that the bankers have more expert knowledge of what loans are wise; prohibiting the practice, they say, would deny policyholders the benefits of shared financial expertise. That contention points up the greatest problem for federal trustbusters. They deeply believe that concentrations of economic power injure everyone, but, as the antitrust laws are now written, they find...