Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producers profess only delight. Says Rocco Landesman, president of the Jujamcyn theater-ownership group that is co-financing and housing Millennium and Perestroika: "When we look back on this in five or 10 years, we are not going to remember our exasperation at the script coming in late or how much money it cost. We are going to remember that we are the producers of Angels in America, the most important play in a generation...
...even these experts have only the vaguest notions of how. "I think we can do it if there is more income for the state," says Monreal. The two envision less central planning but government control over the shape of the economy: a system encompassing private, cooperative and state ownership, all working to the common good. They talk of taxes, salary scales, redundant employment, monetary reform, but have no idea how they would really work. "One day Cuba will not use any ism to describe our system," boasts Carranza...
...surplus peanuts, sweet potatoes, coffee, sheep and pigs. City friends travel 25 miles from the capital to barter for his vegetables and meat, but since he has no fertilizer, no pesticides and no electricity to pump water for irrigation, his production will not increase soon. He hopes private ownership will encourage other farmers to grow more, but he is dubious. "Cubans are used to receiving everything from the state," he says...
...Credit will be somewhat restrained when commercial banks are freed of various obligations to support money-losing state enterprises, but that will be some time coming. Finally, privatization of state-owned companies was acknowledged as a distant prospect -- though the communique made it clear that for the moment public ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Says a Chinese economist: "They're making the blueprint now, but we're going to call 1994 the year of economic reforms...
...control opponents argue that gun ownership is a fundamental right, protected by the Constitution (a debatable legal question). But the right to security is not debatable, and it is under attack every day in our cities. If the Supreme Court rules national gun control unconstitutional, then it is time for an amendment...