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Your analysis of the job specifications for the presidency stopped short of detailing what can be done to improve the caliber of candidates. I believe that a diminution of the open competition in American politics has been a major contributor to the selection of poorer candidates, and therefore less qualified elected officials. For the 1988 election, a list should be drawn up of 200 of the most promising leaders. Then an advisory review board, similar to the American Bar Association, would rate the individuals. Mediocre candidates would be discouraged. Excellent ones would be encouraged to get into races. This system...
This weekend, when the ministers of the world's least loved cartel gather in Vienna, the session is apt to be the stormiest ever. The members are poorer than they once were; oil exports lifted the current account balance of the OPEC nations to a record $109 billion surplus in 1980, but this year there will be a deficit, estimated at more than $15 billion. The delegates must face the painful fact that they can no longer control both prices and production at high levels, a nettlesome problem because OPEC members have shown little inclination to live with production...
...nations, however, a free press remains merely an ideal, dwarfed by more pressing needs--like securing food, shelter, and adequate health. As a result, Western countries control close to 90 percent of the world's communication power, by one estimate, and the world media has come to look at poorer nations through Western-tinted eyes...
...pull off since Henry J. Kaiser did it in the 1940s: to start an auto company and compete successfully in a market dominated by Ford, Chrysler and GM. In the end, De Lorean's eight-year effort left U.S. investors, dealers and suppliers-and particularly the British government-poorer and wiser. In the beginning, De Lorean made them all believers. The British government, which was looking for ways to provide jobs for desperately unemployed workers in Northern Ireland, poured $156 million in grants, loans and equity capital into the deal. In return, De Lorean built a factory near Belfast...
...Massachusetts laws are currently much stricter than federal constitutional codes, and this referendum would merely make state rules consistent with national policy. In a vacuum, the proposal would seem rational, since private schools in the Commonwealth often provide a better education, and since carefully constructed tax breaks could help poorer families give this opportunity to their children...