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...Reich's teaching, like his policies, are not for everyone. Students say that he is not the most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...
...while tilting at the bold new questions of the eighties and beyond. Hart leaves the old queries to faster. His economic program levels micro solutions helping individual workers and individual flame--an what are essentially macro problems. Freeing up investment funds and giving workers more skills can only work so far. Without an underlying boost in aggregate demand, few companies will care to invest those funds, and without an overall increase in job openings, the most intricate job training will not place the unemployed...
...representative of Hewlett-Packard, an American firm heavily involved with micro-chip technology, recently told a Harvard Business School group that America's share in the global electronics market has dropped from a post-war 100 percent to a current 25 percent, with Japan and other Asian nations picking up the slack. He did not, though, attribute this decrease to the inability of American goods to compete in world markets but to the decline in quality and numbers of science teachers in high schools...
...Philip is fascinated by technology, and they will visit the Rockwell International plant in Los Angeles, where the Queen could take a giddy ride in the shuttle flight simulator. In Cupertino, unofficial capital of Silicon Valley, they will tour the Hewlett-Packard plant and watch white-suited workers make micro chips. In San Diego, while the Queen peruses the Old Globe Theater, Philip will talk to the animals at the city's famed zoo. In order to ensure that the caged beasts growl for the Prince, their lunch that day will be postponed...
...discussing the problems of the Indonesian masses, not with condescension but with an almost abject resignation to the enormity of the suffering Guy, summoning his journalistic instincts goes to where the "story" is, he believes that the "big actors" governments politicians--will bring salvation Billy, by contrast, sees the micro approach as best For him, it is in the small piecemeal actions of even the lowliest members of society that improvement will start...