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...what the official language delicately calls "a third party," is also a rising cause of divorce. Peking's Research Association on Marital Affairs solemnly states that fickleness can come from social-climbing, gold-digging, unsatisfied sexual or romantic desire, or simply "bourgeois liberalism." Peking has plenty of gloom-and-doomers who warn of bankrupt Western ways. These ideologues blame the increased divorce rate on creeping "bourgeois ideas" of materialism and egotism. In fact, the demand for divorce seems highest among the most Westernized Chinese. Some of the leading marital experts, however, see a positive side to the increase...
Some. Gone are the days of limos rented on a lark and unlimited room service from the kitchen and the pharmacy. Gone is much of the personnel, borne off by cuts in all echelons-sparing, of course, the most exalted executive suites, where gloom and consternation flourish nonetheless. There is no smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime...
Ronald Reagan's first-anniversary pep talk to 2,000 federal employees gathered in a Commerce Department auditorium was one of the rare glimmers of optimism emerging from the gloom of Washington last week. Indeed, the very victories that Reagan was exalting-his stunning political success in enacting deep cuts in spending and taxes-made the stagnation of the economy all the more worrisome to those in his Administration. For intruding into the President's vision of success is a devastating 8.9% unemployment rate and a deep recession reflected by a 5.2% annual drop in the gross national...
Executives at the Burbank, Calif., headquarters of Lockheed Corp. were all smiles last week, while at rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis the gloom was thick enough to slice with a propeller. The reason: word had leaked out that the Pentagon was recommending the $4.6 billion purchase of 50 of the giant Lockheed C-5Ns as cargo airlifters for the nation's rapid deployment force. The decision was an unexpected one, since only last August chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Marines had unanimously recommended that a new plane designed by McDonnell Douglas...
Through the gloom covering Poland today it is possible to catch an occasional glimpse of spirit that still glows. In one huge housing block in Warsaw, occupants who own dogs have agreed to walk their pets together-15 minutes after the 11 o'clock curfew. They stand in the courtyard chatting, some in bathrobes, defying the police to try to arrest all of them...