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...basic structural change: the waning of Europe's ability to compete in traditional manufacturing industries. The postwar years of cheap energy, cheap labor off the farm, low social-welfare overheads and huge unsatisfied consumer demand are gone. "There is no easy answer," says John Martin, a manpower expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris...
...does boast far more advanced equipment than even the richest of universites. The notion of universities spearheading the quest for scientific advance is romantic, but it simply doesn't always happen that way. The 5 per cent of faculty members who choose not to disclose their outside lives--one expert's educated guess of the rate of noncompliance--may just be the ones who forge a new understanding of issues in not only genetics, but cancer research and the other areas that challenge America's scientists today...
...Moscow might expect to gain from such tactics. Some observers feel that the immediate target of a Soviet economic squeeze would not be Solidarity and its group of radical leaders but the Polish Communists, who have so far failed to rein in the unruly union. Says Georges Mink, an expert on Poland for the Paris-based Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: "If the Soviet Union wants to obtain a more conciliatory attitude from the government and make it easier for the hard-liners in the infighting, then the economy is a logical weapon...
...squeeze tactic could cause I more problems than it solves. Says one I U.S. State Department expert: "Of all ithe approaches to conquer the Poles, that has to be one of the most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase the chances of having them declare a civil war." Provoking Poland's economic demise could also hurt other East bloc nations, whose economies are closely interlocked. Because of military reasons, the Warsaw Pact nations also do not want Poland to plunge into chaos; the country occupies a strategic position...
...Frederick Mosteller, professor of Statistics and a leading expert on socioeconomic issues in contemporary medicine, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Health, Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), school officials announced yesterday...