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This week we mark one more step in that evolution. in recent months, you may have noticed, we have been experimenting with new ways to organize our stories and present them on our pages. we are now applying a number of these approaches throughout the magazine. we're also adding some new sections...
Ever since it went on line in 1953, the Savannah River facility has operated behind a barrier of secrecy so impenetrable that officials in Washington were often in the dark. In recent months Government investigators have begun to turn up internal memos that are shattering the silence. The result: a congressional hearing that revealed a stunning list of nuclear incidents caused by a combination of primitive instrumentation, inadequately trained personnel and a management meltdown by both DOE and E.I. du Pont de Nemours, which runs the plant for the Federal Government. The impact on the environment is not yet fully...
...past year the Pillsbury Doughboy has not had much reason to let out his giggle. While Pillsbury enjoys strong sales of vegetables, baking products and other grocery items, its restaurant division, including the Burger King chain, has lagged. In the Minneapolis-based company's most recent fiscal year, earnings plummeted 62%, to $69 million, on revenues of $6.2 billion, as the company closed nearly 100 restaurants and sold its Godfather's Pizza chain...
...stark facts are revealed each month in the trade-deficit figures. Despite recent improvement, the U.S. still imported $80 billion more in goods than it exported in the first seven months of the year. At the current rate, the 1988 trade deficit will total some $130 billion, 23.5% less than last year's record $170 billion. That progress has resulted primarily from the 40% drop of the dollar against major currencies since early 1985, which has made imports more expensive and U.S. exports a bargain overseas...
Perhaps. For now, the key issue remains the timing of presidential elections. A quick ballot could even help the government by allowing it to support a single candidate before the opposition can produce a strong field. A long delay, on the other hand, could unravel the opposition's recent unity. But such concerns seemed remote to exultant Chileans last week. In the fall of a ruthless patriarch, the country caught a happy glimpse of both its democratic past and its possible future...