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...solutions to it about as fast as companies have been laying off workers. With The Deindustrialization of America, Boston College's Barry Bluestone and MIT's Bennett Karrison add to this growing literature, which includes everything from Lester Thurow's baleful Zero-Sum Society to the corporatist musings of Felix Rohatyn in the New York Review of Books to Ezra Vogel's jealous Japan as Number...
...possibility of a country defaulting rather than accepting the IMF'S austerity demands cannot be dismissed out of hand," says New York Financier Felix Rohatyn. Notes Stuart Greenbaum, professor of banking and finance at Northwestern University: "Imagine you are a Latin dictator deep in debt. If you [accept IMF terms and] cut back on imports, you get riots in the streets. If you default, you are ostracized by the world capital markets. Now if the first approach leaves you swinging from a tree branch, you know you are going to go the default route...
...Felix Rohatyn, the Wall Street wizard who helped rescue New York City, is gaining advocates for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, reminiscent of the one nation's Franklin D. Roosevelt used. Rohatyn's idea is to rebuild the nation's antiquated private industrial base and public facilities. The problem, says Rohatyn, "is whether the ideas can catch up with the realities before disaster...
...believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple and told Felix and Oscar to go ahead and talk dirty if they want...
...E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around, but the new shading is poor cover for humor that is stale white bread...