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Kodak is one of a growing number of recession-plagued companies that are trying to make their payrolls lean without being mean. Seeking to avoid demoralizing layoffs, many corporate managers are designing special incentives, sometimes called open windows, to recruit volunteers who are eager, or at least willing, to resign or retire. Most such offers are good for a limited time only, because the companies want to trim, not decimate, their staffs. Kodak's program began Jan. 4 and expires...
...needs to touch others, as Brezhnev occasionally did. The photograph of Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter kissing in Vienna's shadowy Hofburg Palace is a classic. Andropov is not likely to be so cuddly. Evidence suggests no pronounced indulgences (like Brezhnev's cars and guns), but instead, a lean life-style and an abhorrence of official corruption...
Gandhi is enjoyable largely because of its ability to evoke what P. R. men call the sweep of history. The excitement of masses of people in a huge flux-the same kind of excitement one finds in Reds or which David Lean Created in. say. Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago is present in abundance and animates Gandhi. Long shots of a crowd standing with umbrellas in a heavy downpour chanting for Gandhi or of converging columns of people marching behind the Mahatma as he marches to the sea to defy the government drive in this impression convincingly...
Meanwhile, the aerospace giant expects to ride out the rest of the recession in lean but solid shape. Military contracts for AWACS (the special radar-equipped 707s that give advance warning of air attacks), air-launched cruise missiles and other systems, which account for 25% of total revenues, will help. Boeing is scheduled to deliver 189 new planes this year, compared with 177 in 1982. That is still 68 planes fewer than the 257 delivered in 1981, but Boeing has shown that tight cost controls and efficient new computer-aided design and manufacturing equipment enable it to operate profitably...
...with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...