Word: martin
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Harvard's Government Professor Martin Kilson, a leading interpreter of Black intellectual life, speaks of the movement Sowell founded as an "important cross-roads in the life cycle" of Black intellectuals that has broadened the debate permissible within their ranks...
...discovered they were expected to pay exorbitant hidden costs to local administrators for office space or to get by with a steady supply of electricity only four days a week. Foreign entrepreneurs also found that even the paper agreements were subject to loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick for the success of a joint venture. Machinery...
...Mecham, 63, has a daunting image problem. A veritable faux pas factory sporting a constant smirk and a vindictive manner, Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks. In February he asked for a list of state employees who are gay. Says Republican State Representative Jane Hull: "This state has had enough. It's just getting too damaging...
This, however, is a minority view, rebutted by an even more broadly based coalition. For example, in hearings before the House Banking Committee last week, economists ranging from the very conservative Martin Feldstein to the very liberal John Kenneth Galbraith wrangled about the size and composition of deficit cuts but not at all about their necessity. In this view, the U.S. has about come to the end of its ability to cover giant budget and trade deficits by borrowing from foreign investors. The stock-market crash served as a warning of what would happen if the foreign capital is ever...
...Martha Bardach, Anne Callahan, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...