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That is one vision for the future of reform, reassuring those who have suffered under it but affirming that it will survive and prosper. Not everyone is so sanguine. Many Russians and Western experts are deeply concerned that regardless of what he says, Yeltsin may have lost his taste for transforming the economy and may even reverse some of the advances he has made. An even graver worry is that Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov will win the election and roll the economy back to state-controlled socialism. "The people who said the reforms could never be reversed are coming...
...demands on American government--at all levels--have never been greater," said Franklin A. Thomas, president of the Ford Foundation, in a written statement, "We are challenged to provide opportunities for all Americans to prosper and to help solve their communities' problems. And, in this time of fiscal constraints, we are challenged to find ways to do more with less...
Copley was, in fact, the first American painter really to prosper on his home ground. To do so, he had to rise socially. The portrait painter has to have the same values, and preferably move in the same social sphere, as his clients. He must know the details of dress, possessions, gesture, expression--the whole theater of a sitter's self-representation--from within. Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Reynolds had shown that; and Copley, in a smaller domain, knew it too. In 1769 he cemented his place in the upper crust of Massachusetts by marrying Susannah Clarke, daughter...
...idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback...
Parents should not allow their children to enter the net without supervision and guidance. Predators prosper wherever there is no watchful eye. That can be in a park at midnight or in a site on the net. JOHN P. CARROLL Toms River, New Jersey AOL: JaCARR...