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...never heard of the eleven-year-old agency before being asked to head it in 1981. A former president of STP Corp., which makes automotive products, Nalen launched a study to see what people thought of OPIC and found that it was largely unknown. Nalen launched a feverish promotion campaign to tell audiences that OPIC encourages American companies to make investments in developing countries by offering insurance against war, revolution, expropriation and the inability to convert local currencies back into dollars. OPIC made a record $76.2 million profit in 1981, while issuing $1.5 billion of insurance. It will come close...
...Feverish Health Costs...
Even though the industry's feverish pace has slowed somewhat in the last year, the companies continue to rely heavily on biologists from all levels of academia. Many of the old problems still exist and the increased competition has only heightened academic officials' fears. University administrators, worry that professors with divided loyalties will hold back projects from publication or use their university labs to do research relating to their outside responsibilities. Stephen H. Atkinson '67 says that if a company is struggling, "it might ask consultants to do things that require intense participation or inappropriate actions to participate in clearly...
TIME'S economists foresee no renewed outbreak of feverish jumps in the C.P.I. They predict that the index will meet the Administration's targets by rising just 5% for all of 1982 and 5.7% in 1983. The economists were particularly cheered by an unexpectedly sharp drop in the so-called core rate of inflation, which measures the inflationary impact of wage gains. That key indicator has fallen to about 6%, from a high of about 9% in 1980. Said Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "A sustained period of 6% core inflation...
...style could not be more surprising. One has come to expect material of this kind to be set forth in a tone of grim and stately foreboding. Instead, Mephisto, a Hungarian-German coproduction that richly deserved its Oscar as this year's Best Foreign Film, moves with a feverish back-staginess, a rushing, unbalancing energy that not only freshens one's historical imagination but finally forces the viewer to turn in on himself, trying to determine whether, in similarly tempting circumstances, he would have done better than its protagonist, Hendrik Höfgen...