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...called cad/cam systems (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) to ease the skills squeeze. These computer-controlled machines do everything from preparing a three-dimensional blueprint to selecting the proper drill bit to bore a metal part. Unfortunately, the nation lacks enough skilled workers to boost cad/cam output to a level anywhere nearly high enough to satisfy the surge in demand...
...Lichtenstein's work, always restrained, has by now reached what amounts to a trance of near mechanical decorum. It scarcely trespasses upon the world of feeling or lived experience. If the word academic means anything in relation to art today, it must apply to Lichtenstein's output: an oeuvre committed to the play of a given set of pictorial mannerisms, faultlessly sustained, often funny and always dryly intelligent, all of them directed toward reducing art to a sequence of predictable signs. Anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein by the application of those hard outlines, Ben Day dots...
Prices are sliding in large part because Saudi Arabia, which produces 10.3 million bbl. of crude oil daily, or 40% of all the output of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is intentionally forcing them lower. As longtime champions of steady, but moderate, rises in the price of oil, the Saudis have refused to mimic price hawks like Libya, Iran and Iraq. Instead, the Saudis for the past nine months have been pumping nearly 2 million bbl. per day above their self-imposed limit of 8.5 million bbl. daily in order to create an oil surplus and drive...
...hardest hit nations is Nigeria. As sales have fallen off, Nigeria's output has slipped in recent months. Daily production is now running at little more than 1.6 million bbl., down nearly 30% from 1980 levels...
...revenues in 1980 amounted to some $25 billion, or nearly 50% of the nation's entire economic output, but smaller oil receipts will be causing new problems. With an estimated $5.5 billion in foreign loans already on its books, Nigeria now faces the unpleasant choice of adding perhaps $3 billion more in international debts, or else drawing down its $10 billion in foreign exchange reserves...