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...Gulf of Mexico by financing the purchase of dozens of boats. An estimated $10 million in Korean keh (contracts) has financed the purchase of houses, restaurants and small grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. "This is Horatio Alger all over," says David W. Engstrom, a research associate at the University of Chicago who studies immigrant merchants. Thanks to loan clubs, he adds, "most of these people open their businesses in three to four months after arriving here...
...federal budget deficit, Carlucci and Congress are slowing the runaway growth in defense spending unleashed during the early Reagan years. Some proposed weapons, ships and planes are in danger of being scrapped by the Pentagon, which would cut into the profitability of companies that have spent millions on research and development. Other projects could be postponed or stretched out. Adding to the industry's uncertainty is the question of what President Reagan's successor will do once he gets his hands on the Pentagon's purse strings. Many executives echo the fears of Grumman Chairman John Bierwirth, who says, "This...
Brinkley, who based much of the book on his own memories of wartime Washington as well as on research done by his son, Alan, a former Harvard history professor, lays out his central thesis early on in the book, namely that Washington stumbled into World War II woefully unprepared to manage it and somehow improvised its way through...
Space Scientist Carol Stoker, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, points out that there would be benefits of artificial gravity beyond the physiological ones. "Toilets would flush properly, things wouldn't float in the air, and just think of surgery in zero gravity," she muses. Malcolm Cohen, chief of the neuroscience branch at Ames, worries about the possible physiological effects of rotation. "Weightlessness is the devil we know," he says, "and we have some idea how to overcome its effects. But artificial gravity in space is a devil we don't know well." Still, he concludes...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...