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Pfeiffer thus becomes one of the highest-ranking women in U.S. business. Still, while she will have a seat on the board of RCA, NBC's corporate parent, she will report to Silverman, the programming magician whom NBC hired away from ABC earlier this year to try to pull the network out of its last-place ratings slot. Silverman will run the network; Pfeiffer will use her extensive Government contacts on behalf of NBC and will be its spokesman in Washington at a crucial time-hearings begin next year on a sweeping proposal for deregulation of the communications industry...
While many industrialized nations have wobbly economies, the less developed countries (LDCs) are enjoying a period of good health that is likely to continue into the mid-1980s. That is the substance of an unexpectedly optimistic report last week by the World Bank. The economies of the non-oil producing developing countries expanded 4.9% last year, vs. 3.5% for developed nations. One reason is that bountiful harvests have substantially eased food shortages, especially in Southeast Asia. The effective use made of World Bank agricultural loans, which have increased 40% since 1973, was especially praised. The LDCs also benefited from...
...annually to enable Third World countries to begin oil exploration projects. That, too, should provide a continuing stimulus for growth. A major threat to further gains is the possibility that the developed countries will put up trade barriers against Third World exports. That would be self-defeating, warns the report, because only if the LDCs remain on the upswing can they continue to buy 28% of the manufactured goods exported by the industrial states...
...think we could probably do that." And so with a complacent speech from an energy executive and a pleasing roast beef luncheon, and no coverage from the media, the subcommittee smiled at its report and adjourned...
...50th Anniversary Class Report in 1943, McDaniel wrote, "The mere fact that President Roosevelt chanced to be one of my students at Harvard in 1901 makes my ultra-conservative friends eye me askance, suspecting that I may be partly responsible for some of his economic novelties. I wish that the Latin of my poor teaching could have made even a microscopic contribution to his masterful leadership in this...