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Typically, Manfred Eicher, 35, the founder, manager and premier producer of ECM, will fly his musicians into a Norwegian studio nicknamed the Whale, right in the heart of downtown Oslo. The musicians start to work as soon as they shake off the jet lag. An album usually takes two days to record-a day for each side-with a third day reserved for mixing. Very businesslike, minimal distractions. Oslo is short on hotspots likely to divert attention from the matter at hand. For fun, the musicians trundle off to the Edvard Munch Museum...
...announcing Joshua Nkomo's shift from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Public Service. This was, in effect, a humiliating demotion, since it stripped Nkomo of his control over the national police. Mugabe said that necessary "transformations" in the Home Affairs department "seemed to lag behind expectations, so most of the criticism of the police became criticism of Comrade Nkomo." This, he said, was "completely unjustified...
exactly right when he said, The economist's lag is the politician's nightmare.' " TIME'S cover story this week analyzes both lag and nightmare...
...reasons for the lag in savings, investment and productivity are numerous and complex. Inflation is a cause as well as an effect. A consumer cannot save if he needs every penny he earns to pay next month's rising rent, food and fuel bills. A businessman is not likely to build a new plant when current high interest rates and the unknowns about the future course of inflation make it virtually impossible to estimate potential profits...
Roberts nipped Dartmouth's Jim Chapman in the 200 individual medley. The Dartmouth swimmer, who teams with identical twin Tim and older brother Bill to give the Big Green credibility, led coming out of the turn on the freestyle leg, but began to lag in time for Roberts to pull out in front...