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...have risen from the rubble and grown into the world's second-largest economic entity, ranking below only the U.S. In a remarkable fashion, that accomplishment owes much to the superpowers. From the West came the generosity and vision of the U.S., through the Marshall Plan; that grand recovery scheme, conceived under the aegis of then Secretary of State George C. Marshall, gave Western Europe more than $13 billion to build a new economic foundation. From the East came the threat represented by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet despot whose Red Army divided the Continent in half, and who spurred movement...
...drive for S.D.I. could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva and undermine NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence as the basis of alliance security. A U.S. invitation to the 15 other NATO members, as well as to Japan, Australia and Israel, to participate in the research scheme seems unlikely to remove those doubts, even if they do not prove to be well founded...
...check-kiting scheme, several bank accounts were played off against one another to avoid bouncing any checks and to gain, in effect, interest-free loans. Hutton's scheme was illegal because the overdrafting was so consistent and the amounts involved so excessive. The maneuvers, which took place over a 20 month period beginning in July 1980, involved checks totaling about $10 billion. On some days, Hutton enjoyed $250 million in interest-free loans...
...entities together, to get these new, younger visitors interested in the museum as a whole? Holding concerts on weekend evenings, when the museum is relatively quiet and empty, will certainly alter its normal scheme. Looking to the future, concerts will be coordinated with exhibits in a way that will attract concert-goers to the visual parts of the museum as well. The Books (see related review, Page B4) famous for shows that fuse images and music, they are an excellent example of contemporary multimedia artistic fusion, and the hope is to keep it open to such syntheses in the future...
...Hirsch’s scheme, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and those of his ilk, can do the MFA no harm, and are likely to give it a new, fresher facade. This musical shift is another remodeling of sorts, a process not new to the museum by any means, but it is an expansion in an essentially new direction, and, as such, will carry with it broad new consequences that will help to shape this generation’s conception of ancient institutions of this sort. See you at the MFA show? Cool...