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...network series as United States and Breaking Away. Nickelodeon, the children's channel, is trying to attract older viewers at night with reruns of chestnuts like The Donna Reed Show and Route 66. Even MTV now interrupts its playlist of rock videos with a sitcom on Sunday nights, an import from Britain called The Young Ones...
...Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic way, fingering seven of the 22 defendants in the courtroom as Mafia members involved in a conspiracy to import and sell $1.6 million worth of heroin...
Nissenson, whose previous fiction (My Own Ground, A Pile of Stones) dealt almost exclusively with Jewish subjects, extends his range with this novel. He never steps out of character to make any of its burdens explicit. Keene does not know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that...
...modernize and become more efficient. Man hours per ton of carbon steel produced by large mills fell from 7.8 in 1978 to 5.4 in the second quarter of this year. So far, however, the Administration's effort to buy the industry some breathing space with voluntary quotas on imports has not produced results. Even if shipments from the major exporters can be slowed, the industry fears smaller producers will step in to take up the slack. So far, only one-third of the 76 steel-producing nations have agreed to limit their exports, and some agreements have loopholes. Korea...
...many ways, the defensive strategy is appealing. It certainly would be easier. American executives and workers could relax, secure in the knowledge that thanks to protective tariffs and restrictive import rules they had to worry much less about foreign competition or losing their markets. That strategy, though, ignores the fact that competition is the driving force of Western economies. Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born philosopher of capitalism, described how businesses compete and change in a process of "creative destruction." In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), he wrote that firms "incessantly revolutionized the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying...