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...business?especially those industries, such as electronics and computers, that are expanding rapidly in a generally lackluster economy. This would both weaken the nation's global competitive position and cause inflationary shortages. Says Thurow: "You will see the wages for engineers go through the roof in Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Certain types of equipment will get very expensive." The resulting pressure, Thurow argues, could be contained only by a rate of productivity growth greater than the U.S. has experienced in 16 years (productivity actually declined in 1980). Or it would have to be paid...
...incident is already a Pentagon legend. On one of his first days as Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, 63, arrived at his desk to find a report giving the reasons for a single budget item; it was 2,916 pages long. Weinberger hit the roof, to the extent that his easygoing temper can fly. He called for an all-out war on the stultifying proliferation of paper and procedures throughout the department. As a senior official put it, the bureaucratic problem of putting together a budget had become so imposing that "the numbers were driving the policy...
...offending his environmentalist constituency. At midweek he ignored the recommendation of his own Medfly advisory committee and refused to allow aerial spraying. Brown explained that he did not want Californians "waking up in the middle of the night to those helicopters spraying the garden, the street light, the roof, the child's bicycle, the swimming pool and everything else...
...shook under the weight of the people. Across the street from the Holiday Inn, hundreds of people camped out on the lawn of a McDonald's. Hundreds more balanced themselves precariously on a railing at the top of a six-level parking garage. Others took the elevator to the roof of the Holiday Inn before police were called in to kick them...
...life in Iran, the I.R.P. had sought to avoid attention-and perhaps attack-by keeping secret a meeting of its leaders last week at their headquarters in south Tehran. It did not succeed. As Beheshti addressed the gathering, a massive explosion ripped apart the entire building. The roof and walls collapsed. Bodies and parts of bodies flew through the air, then were buried under tons of rubble. The noise of the blast carried for miles...