Word: morass
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Probably not, but Schell, like every other person who is looking for ways out of the nuclear morass, is torn by the conflicting pulls of realism and idealism. While interpreting much of the nuclear debate to this point as a debate between the two approaches to problem solving. Schell does not show his own stripes as he did (to little effect) in Fate of the Earth. One part of Schell Model '84 is saying blast nationalism and provincialism and advocate a King Solomon of a world government that will solve everything; the other is looking for solutions within the traditional...
...suppliers of computer services. Founded in 1962 by Chairman H. Ross Perot, EDS (1983 sales: $629.7 million) provides data processing for such customers as the U.S. Army and the state of Tennessee's Medicaid program. GM already has the first task for EDS: streamlining the automaker's morass of accounting, payroll and scheduling records. Said GM Chairman Roger Smith: "We have to get to the point where every time a dealer sells a Cadillac, then Firestone or Goodyear automatically will send another set of tires right on over to one of our plants." By providing EDS with billions...
...parent company of NBC, dropped $17 million on the Entertainment Channel before closing it last year. ABC and its partner, Westinghouse, gave up on their Satellite News venture last October, selling out to Turner Broadcasting System for $25 million. Despite all that, ABC last week plunged into the coaxial morass again with its biggest cable venture ever. The company paid $202 million for the U.S.'s most popular cable service, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, a 24-hour channel with 30 million subscribers. ABC already owned 15% of ESPN, and will buy the remainder from Texaco, which...
...final minutes, that this lightness was false all along--may offer a clue to the total imbalances of both production and script. That part of the audience which hung on until the end gets the payoff of a genuinely moving conclusion--the assurance that somewhere in the morass of stylization there was a story worth remembering. If the theatregoer is patient, not too sleepy, and willing to work, the evening is by no means a theatrical dead loss. Swartz and her company have coaxed a good deal out of this literary curiosity, perhaps as much as they possibly could have...
They're not saying that anymore, though, as Giant George is on the ropes, fighting to last another round. His stumbling block this last year has been Lebanon, a morass by any measure. Can you imagine what the second guessers would have done if Jimmy Carter and Cy Vance pursued the policy undertaken by Reagan and Shultz? Equivocate over whether they like the Israeli invasion or not. Refuse for a year to acknowledge that Syria has any interests whatsoever in the country. Send in several hundred marines without a clear idea of what they're doing and get more than...