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TIME begins its bonus coverage this week with a special report on the Winter Olympics, a 24-page section-more than double the length of the average TIME cover-on the men and women who will compete for the U.S. in the first Olympics...
...Economy. The President intends to dwell at length, and with pride, on the vig or of the recovery from the 1981-82 recession. He will note that unemployment in 1983 fell faster than at any other time since the Korean War, that national production rose about one-third higher than the Administration's own forecast had envisioned, and that the inflation rate was the lowest in a decade. Those accomplishments, he will conclude, set the stage for a long period of noninflationary growth; the Administration is currently predicting 4% a year for the foreseeable future...
During the past 16 months, TIME'S Business section, headed by Senior Editor George M. Taber, has produced five cover-length examinations of the workings of the U.S. economy in general and some of its biggest companies in particular. The subjects: Wall Street, Chrysler, high-tech enterprises vs. "rust bowl" basic industries, IBM and AT&T. Running through all these stories has been a skein of numbers: units sold, market share, degree of dominance. For this week's cover story on the new multimillionaires, written by Associate Editor Alexander L. Taylor III, the numbers are more easily grasped...
Spurred by the chaos and perceived inequality of the 1968 Democratic Convention, electoral reforms in the next 10 years significantly broadened representation among delegates, virtually eliminated elected officials from service as delegates, and vastly increased the number of primaries and the length of the selection process. Though well intended, however, the proliferation of primaries, from 17 in 1968 to 36 in 1980, seemed to backfire badly, turning the nominating process into a veritable steeplechase that discouraged those with hefty official responsibilities from running and led to gross inconsistencies in state voting rules...
...bearish about managing their $4 billion portfolio. By switching from stocks to bonds in a timely fashion, they were able to outdistance most of their competitors during the market slides of 1974, 1977 and 1981. Last year, however, their performance was lackluster. Ever the pessimists, they underestimated the length of the stock rally and sold out too soon...