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Awash in surplus oil profits, Iran is swiftly becoming the world's most acquisitive power. No purchase seems too big nor risk too great for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as he pursues his oft proclaimed goal of transforming his ancient kingdom into one of the globe's most important nations. Last week reports surfaced that the Shah once again was stalking where most bankers fear to tread. According to aviation-industry experts, Iran's banks are preparing to grant a loan, thought to be as much as $250 million, to ailing Pan American World Airways...
...MONASTIC WORLD, by Christopher Brooke, photographs by Wim Swaan (Random House; 272 pages; $35). Pictorially, this is as exhilarating and artful a presentation of Christian monastic structures as any popular volume ever before assembled. It includes not only such oft-visited sites as Assisi and Mont-Saint-Michel but also monasteries that seem more like eagles' aeries, such as Saint-Martin-du-Canigou in southern France. The text, moreover, is a lucid, sympathetic but judicious treatise on the monastic life and its reverberations in society, written by Medievalist Brooke, a historian at London University...
Cities do have some ways to stretch their budgets. They can, of course, raise taxes, and some are doing so, despite the intense unpopularity of that step. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, for one, is having to back off from his oft-repeated pledge that there would be no increase in property taxes while he was in city hall. Cities could also shift from outmoded "line-item" budgets-which simply list how much is to be spent for salaries, how much for construction and so on-to "performance" budgeting that stresses goals and priorities. When they made that switch four years...
...lack of diversity among extension school students probably lies in the orthodox nature of the courses offered. Many of them are facsimiles of the courses faculty members offer their undergraduates, and Harvard students flipping through the extension catalogue would not immediately realize they had strayed from their oft-perused Courses of Instruction...
...agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over, the Administration will move to clamp controls on construction wages and the prices of building materials, despite the President's oft-stated opposition to wage-price controls of any kind...