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...Almost overnight these guys have seen an impossible dream come within reach," says Roger Molander, a strategic analyst at the Rand Corp. "They look at the leverage they've got in their dealings with Moscow, and they say to themselves, 'Hey! Here's the chance of a millennium...
...added that other precautionary measures, including restrictions on the numbers of visitors and overnight guests students may have, will be enforced throughout the Regatta weekend. The University is also requiring advance registration for all social functions, including private parties...
Capitalism has hit home in Czechoslovakia. In fact, it has hit the President's house. VACLAV HAVEL's Prague neighbors were startled to see an end wall of his apartment house blossom overnight into a colorful mosaic of Procter & Gamble billboards. Havel, who hopes to use the billboard fees to restore the building's crumbling facade, has shrewdly insisted on veto power over the content of the ads. P&G happily obliged with a politically correct mix of environmental messages that stress the company's commitment to cleanliness. Got any wall space in Kennebunkport, President Bush...
Drivers on the Tri-State Tollway just southwest of Chicago were startled last week by a billboard plugging the Afro Country Club, "where only the ball is white." They were even more startled the next day, after overnight vandals wrote NIGER (sic) and K.K.K. and daubed a swastika on the sign. Similar racist graffiti were sprayed on road signs in the town of Justice, the racially mixed bedroom community of 11,500 where the billboard was located...
...very important to strengthen the development of a market economy and joint ventures; it's why I'm eager to be allowed to do more private-sector investment there. But even < if the European Bank is allowed to do that, no one can say that problems will be resolved overnight. It will be a very long process, and the coming years are going to be very difficult. When Spain shook itself free after Franco's death, it had much more going for it than the Soviet Union, including a successful entrepreneurial tradition. And yet readjustment there produced unemployment as high...