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...believe unflappably in Anderson's conviction and in his goals, how can he write about John Anderson's "lack of a clear vision for the people of the nation"? What Toobin's editorial signifies is one disenchanted liberal's self-indulgent attempt at journalism. But let me try to repair the damage done by Toobin's opus...
Unfortunately, Poland's economic problems seem to be well beyond the power of workers or government to repair in the near future. They are the result of 33 years of Communist bungling and a decade of misfortune and miscalculation by Gierek's government. He had inherited a chaotic agricultural system and an inefficient industrial base that produced chronic shortages of foodstuffs and consumer goods. His solution was a rapid modernization of industry that was intended to produce hard-currency-earning exports and enable the government to import more food and goods from the West...
...spending less, the town's economy is slowing down. Shops have laid off 600 employees, reducing the retail work force to 6,000. "We aren't selling much jewelry right now," admits Sue Emmanuel, the manager of the Fox Jewelry Store. "But we are doing lots of repair work." The manager of a big department store chain explains that the unemployed browse and sometimes buy because "it people them feel better to buy something, if only a $2.98 blouse...
Into the columned entrance of the Federal District Courthouse in Manhattan one day last week walked the attorneys of Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest steelmaker (1979 sales: $7.1 billion) and a major ship repairer. They came on a painfully embarrassing mission. On behalf of their company, they entered a guilty plea to an eleven-page statement of criminal offenses. The charges: during the lean years of tanker building and repair that followed the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Bethlehem engaged in a complex conspiracy that resulted in the payment of bribes of at least...
...novice mistake is to use a piece of string as a measuring tape. Once at the lumberyard, the string starts to stretch and the would-be woodworker either goes back home or ends up with a board that is too long. Thus the black thumb rule at most home-repair centers: $5 worth of advice with every $1 in sales. Last winter Boston's public television station WGBH broadcast a 13-week series on home renovation titled This Old House. The program drew some of the highest ratings in the station's history, and a new version will...