Word: interests
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Meanwhile, in the nearly two years since Wall Street's insider trading scandals increased interest in the teaching of ethics, a well-publicized $30 million grant to the school has allowed ethics to gradually find a place in the school's curriculum...
...Manhattan. Nakagama and other New Wave advocates say the record expansion owes its strength and resilience to the openness of the U.S. economy during the past decade. With the global village linked by high-speed computers and communications satellites, they argue, U.S. executives easily hurdle obstacles like rising domestic interest rates by borrowing from other countries. In the same way, American manufacturers can escape high labor costs by opening factories abroad to add new capacity...
Berge retorted that he never asked any such thing, only a veto power over Barenboim's decisions. "I have absolutely no interest in artistic control of the new opera," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he argues that Barenboim's choice of classic works is "elitist." Says he: "The program established by Barenboim . . . satisfies neither President Mitterrand nor me." But he puts considerable blame for the furor on the maestro's exalted pay: "I offered Barenboim a salary of 4 million francs (($667,000)), but he would not accept anything less than 5 million...
...Another decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...
...North Koreans expressed little interest in a summit but suggested that the Prime Ministers hold talks on such long-standing Northern demands as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula. The Roh government would have preferred to start discussions on less contentious topics, but went along with the Pyongyang proposal. Said Roh: "There are changes in the North that cannot be easily seen. I think we will have a summit meeting in the not too distant future...