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Next on the Winchester agenda is getting "meditation kits" to top admirals and generals. He is also applying meditation techniques to one of the Pentagon's knottiest problems: defense acquisitions. After all, he reasons, the Pentagon can become truly cost-conscious only when it succeeds in raising its underlying consciousness...
...longer have to call Dearborn, Mich., to talk with Company Expert Gordy Kujawski every time they run into a hard-to-diagnose engine problem. Instead, they will simply plug into a new nationwide computer system developed by Ford to duplicate the reasoning Kujawski uses to untangle the knottiest problems...
...York's City Center. Kinkan Shonen is meant to be, according to a subtitle in the program, "a young boy's dream of the origins of life and death." But the excitement of both works is really their open-endedness, the way in which they resolve the knottiest of paradoxes: to be universal while remaining specific, to summon shared memories from a splintered past...
...South African troops were withdrawing from a five-week offensive against guerrilla bases of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), following the negotiation of a joint South African-Angolan disengagement agreement. That had opened the door to a once inconceivable breakthrough in Southern Africa's knottiest diplomatic problem: achieving independence for the South African-controlled territory of Namibia. The developments were a sorely needed foreign policy victory for the Reagan Administration. After three years of deep involvement in all of the negotiations, the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement," or soft-spoken diplomacy with South Africa, appeared...
...miffed by this breathtaking insult to its capital? No, because the larger truth is that self-admiring localism is as American as pumpkin pie. The U.S. got stitched together out of a sprawling fuss of self-contained colonies whose fierce attachment to their little domains provided one of the knottiest obstacles to union. Later, ferocious regionalism helped contrive the nation's definitive crisis, the Civil War. After poking around in every cranny of modern America, Journalist John Gunther concluded a generation ago that for all its dazzling communications the U.S. was "enormously provincial...