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...rein in dissident theologians. Chicago Psychologist (and former priest) Eugene Kennedy sums up the strategy: "He is clearly positioning the church for the next century, where its source of strength will be in Africa. He may have sacrificed the Western intellectuals in the church, but in the long run they may turn out to be unimportant...
...Celtics meet the Rockets again tomorrow night, this time in Houston; and unless Houston finds some way to rein the Boston fast break, the series--which currently stands at 3-2--will end there...
...adopted the philosophy that once you hook up with a customer-even if you do not charge him enough at first-you will eventually be able to make money on him. We started to put a little pressure on this M.B.A., and just when we were about to rein him in, one of our major competitors hired him with a huge increase in salary. M.B.A.s build up impressive résumés, but it takes a little while to determine whether they are good at what they do. I think 'glittery' is a nice word to describe...
...editing on video rather than film. But the concept of actors and artisans under contract recalls the studio system that flourished for 40 years and died out in the '60s. Can Zoetrope work? Can it be profitable? Will a dozen cantankerous directors chafe under the effusive rein of an auteur-mogul? Many people in the New Hollywood, including some of Coppola's competitors, hope he makes it. Others are more skeptical. Says Ned Tanen: "Francis has all the answers. Too bad someone doesn't give him the questions...
Another year of economic stagnation. That is the gloomy picture that TIME'S European Board of Economists sees for 1981. As nations struggle to absorb rapid-fire energy price shocks from the Middle East, unemployment in Europe will climb and torrid inflation will cool only slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse...