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Data Resources maintains a complex, computerized model of the American economy. Major corporations pay an average of $51,000 yearly to gain access to DRI's computer and its economic data...
...system have even more cause for concern. In the aftermath of the fourfold price rise of 1973, U.S. banks led the way in trying to "recycle" the dollars that flowed into the oil-producing states and were then invested in the West or parked for short periods in the major institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation in much better shape than many of the pessimists believed possible, though the amounts involved were huge...
...infusions of fresh capital to modernize old plants and increase its output of small gas-sipping models. But a Chrysler deal would make little sense for Volkswagen, which has just regained its old momentum after a long period of drift, during which Japanese automakers zipped past it in many major markets. Detroit executives point out that Volkswagen, which is the most firmly established foreign automaker in the U.S., does not need Chrysler's dealer network or antiquated plants. Most of all, VW does not need Chrysler's huge unsold inventory of big autos that could become the albatrosses...
When Pope John Paul II made his historic homecoming to Poland earlier this month, hundreds of Western journalists covered the trip as they would any fast-breaking major story, constantly revising and updating their reports as events unfolded. But their Polish counterparts had no such need for speed and flexibility. The content of their stories-and the number of accompanying photographs -had been largely dictated by the Polish Communist Party's Central Committee weeks before the Pope arrived...
Divorce is major surgery. Even if the operation is a seeming success, the patient is never quite the same. The prevalence of divorce has had an incalculable effect on the fabric of U.S. society, but our playwrights rarely broach the subject. A notable exception is Oliver Hailey. His Father's Day examines the scar tissue of pain; yet his play is saturated with wry, bitchy, gallant and sex-laced humor, the kind of hilarity that rises from the ashes of despair...