Word: hewett
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...Pilbeam] has worked a lot with the outside community in terms of explaining the need for supporting undergraduate education," Hewett said...
Meanwhile the legislators affirmed Gorbachev's decree powers as President and called on him to use them to break up monopolies, sell state property and establish a banking system. This, says Ed Hewett, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, amounts almost to a vote of confidence and gives Gorbachev the option to "move quickly toward a market economy" -- if he wants...
...Hewett, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was an easy choice. One of America's foremost authorities on the Soviet economy, Hewett has written or edited five texts on the subject. These days, the peripatetic economist is in high demand as a speaker and seminar participant. Even Soviet policymakers seek his advice. He is especially close to Nikolai Petrakov, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, which gives Hewett an inside angle on the challenges facing the reformers in Moscow...
Gorbachev's announcement last week that he was postponing shock therapy for the Soviet economy -- the core of the remedy recommended by Hewett and Hornik -- has redoubled doubts about whether the U.S.S.R. will make it. Still, nobody is counting Gorbachev out yet. "We can't just take what he is saying, that he won't let prices float, at face value," says Hewett. "This is not the kind of thing that you announce with a lot of lead time." In the end, the Soviet President -- whom Hewett calls a "man I would not want to play poker with" -- may well...