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...Professor Kremer fills a gap in devel- opment economics while Professor Rogoff fills agap in international economics, two areas that arevery popular with the undergraduates," saidWilliamson, who is also Bell professor ofeconomics...
...bother? For years, Detroit's Big Three didn't, despite public protests to the contrary (former GM chairman Roger Smith solemnly promised a commercially viable electric car by the mid-1980s). Even in recent years they have devoted less than 2% of their research-and-devel opment budgets to electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles. Admits GM's vice president of advanced engineering Donald Runkle (although something of an electric buff himself): "They're kind of funny and hokey with these strange electric noises, always buzzing, clicking and humming. There was always this image that they were just slow, dumpy...
...neighboring Brazil, government leaders found themselves painfully squeezed between the IMF and its sister agency, the World Bank. The bank wants to lend Brazil $1.4 billion for major devel opment projects, but the credit has been held up because it would swell Brazil's money supply beyond limits set by the IMF as a condition...
...peripheral vision is usually good," he said quietly over and over, "but it failed me." Thompson, observing from across the locker room, said softly: "It's a hard lesson in a national championship, but it's part of his maturity and educational devel opment." For a moment, education re turned to college basketball...
...development." Says Campbell: "In Texas, we have always thought there was plenty of everything, that nothing needed to be conserved. But is it really progress to destroy those natural things people have come to enjoy?" But they agree on one thing: in light of the erosion and devel opment problems, there must be more careful planning and zoning...