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...much time Gorbachev has to make his mark is, of course, impossible to predict. If he lives as long as Chernenko, and if he stays in the good graces of his colleagues in the Politburo, he could be a leader for decades to come. And because he is young and likely to be around for quite some time, there is a natural tendency to see him as a herald of change. To some extent he is, and the change is already evident. Now that the junior member of the Politburo has become the senior partner, the collective leadership cannot...
...cannot prove that arts on cable is a viable business. The channel charges a small fee to cable systems that carry it but hopes to earn most of its revenue from advertising. Though progress has been slow, 24 national advertisers have signed up thus far, and network executives predict that the channel will be in the black by 1986. "We have minded our knitting," says Davatzes. "We finished our first year ahead of our business plan." For the last best hope of culture on cable, that is no mean feat...
...queuing up with their pet projects. University of Pennsylvania Economist Lawrence Klein wants supercomputer time to build a comprehensive model of the world economy. At the University of Illinois, Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...
...Admitted Greenspan: "The dollar has long been a great worry of mine." If foreigners lost confidence in the dollar, they might start pulling large sums of money out of American investments. That could lead to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and slower growth than the economists now predict...
...stylish Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. He makes no claims to being a great long-range corporate planner, even to the point of refusing to keep an appointment calendar. Jacobs is a person of instinct and action. Says he: "You can't predict what I'm going to do next because there is no track, no character to it. Our big asset is our flexibility, being able to move on a moment's notice...