Word: failed
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...Germans in producing consumer and high-tech goods to more business-related problems. American business spends too much capital on mergers and financial games and too little time in modernizing factories and floating innovative ventures. American consumers buy too much and save too little. Robert Reich argues that we fail to translate scientific discovery into products because the Pentagon dominates research in this country. But hardly anyone believes the fault lies with our inability to "understand" Japan or Germany...
...improve an undergraduate's schooling. Many if not all of the students who enroll from overseas tend to be from their countrys' rich and powerful elite. They are accustomed to Western ways and often do a very good job of assimilating into American culture and Harvard "high society." I fail to see how going to classes or partying with, say, someone from the Middle East or South America, whose father is a rich international banker or a powerful government official, is going to help me understand a foreign culture. The only thing mingling with such foreign nobles may teach...
Some problem. Fyodorov, 44, is co-chairman of the eight-member cooperative that opened Moscow's first such venture last March. He and his seven partners, most of them experienced cooks or waiters, are investing in a business that will prosper -- or fail -- without government interference. "We never imagined we would do this well," says the energetic, chain-smoking co- chairman. Cafe 36 Kropotkinskaya, as they named the restaurant (bureaucrats wanted it to be called Cafe Cooperator), is a consequence of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms legalizing small-scale private enterprise. One of the goals is to improve the country...
...difference being that it will have a more efficient economy," says Richard Perle, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense. Henry Kissinger, who believes that the Soviet attempts at reform are sincere, captures the dilemma nicely: "There are two dangers for the U.S. in this program: first, that it may fail; second, that it may succeed." The U.S., Kissinger adds, should not make foreign policy concessions based on a desire to affect Soviet domestic reforms...
Moreover, even if Gorbachev is sincere in trying to make a significant change in Soviet foreign policy, he may fail. Traditional views about national security and global ideological struggle are deeply embedded in the Soviet military, the foreign policy establishment and the party hierarchy...