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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affiliates of the center are researching topics ranging from aging and retirement in the Soviet Union, to Dostoevsky, Stalinism and 18th-century Russia. But perhaps the experiences of one member of the center's executive committee represent a growing trend: Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History and an expert on Soviet ideology, is on leave this term. He is in Washington advising the National Security Council...
...poorly trained government troops outnumber the guerrillas by 16,000 to 4,000. But the soldiers are spread thinly across a country the size of Massachusetts, and their mobility is hampered by antiquated equipment, their tactics by a lack of know-how. Still, one military expert contends that "only with an immense infusion of arms and men from the outside" do the guerrillas have a chance at winning the war. Owing in part to the failure of the January offensive, and to the Reagan Administration's determination to help the junta, the leftists' support abroad is ebbing. Even...
...accept. Thus a dangerous potential for new clashes remained. Ultimately, the Poles and their leaders could only hope they might transcend the hazards by cleaving to a bedrock sense of nationalism that has sustained the country through almost two centuries of foreign encroachments. As a Bonn Foreign Ministry expert put it last week, "Whatever their ideological bent, Poles agree fully on one thing: they don't want the Russians...
Three years ago, Bricklin, then a first-year Harvard Business School student, conceived VisiCalc while struggling with financial-planning problems on his calculator. He enlisted the aid of Frankston, a longtime friend and an expert programmer, to develop a new piece of computer software that would make juggling all those figures easier...
Nonspecialized Careers. In U.S. companies, managers usually pick out one area of company business (sales, finance or production) and concentrate on that. By contrast, Japanese executives do not specialize and regularly move from one corporate department to the next. In the process, they become expert in the structure and internal workings of the company...