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...without payment of a "mobilization fee," which can amount to 40% of the contract. Shagari is personally untainted, but among those accused of corruption are some of the political barons who helped bring him to power. Says a Western analyst: "The question is whether Shagari has the courage to rein them in. If he does not, there could be trouble ahead...
...hours, eliminating the free Saturdays won by Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take new employment for up to a year at the lowest legal wage. The Sejm had intended to draw up new regulations giving the authorities freer rein to make arrests. But Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, issued a letter of protest, reminding the authorities that a further tightening of the legal noose would run counter to the spirit of Pope John Paul II's meetings with Jaruzelski last month. As a result...
Duvall's choice of actors is an alchemy of pragmatism and intuition. "Producing," she says, "is just chemistry plus some financing." Her form of creative control is to give everyone virtual free rein. An upcoming production of The Beauty and the Beast, for example, has been filmed by Director Roger Vadim in the surrealistic style of Jean Cocteau. Duvall encourages the actors to take chances, even allowing Carol Kane to portray a good fairy as an insecure and pixieish Valley Girl...
Administration officials last week were publicly and pointedly urging Volcker to rein in the money supply, even if that causes a modest uptick in interest rates. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who had reservations about Volcker's reappointment, called for "slow-repeat slow-and steady" money growth...
...building, even if the people there are the most intelligent people in the world, which they are not. We decided to put the plan under the control of the market." To be sure, Hungary's economy has strong state direction, with the central bank exercising a tight rein on credit. But Hungary's concessions to a market economy include allowing people to make some profits from family farm plots...