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...Alliance has proposed a short-term "ecumenical government" made up of public figures who are acceptable to all sides. Such a transition team would be assigned to set the cleanup in motion and then take the country into new elections. As Papandreou's health deteriorated last week, many in Athens believed it might be the one way out of the labyrinth...
...What set the stage for a backlash was the deregulation of such industries as airlines and broadcasting. While the loosening of rules typically brought consumers lower prices and wider choices, the process reduced governmental monitoring of business. In its free-market zeal, the Reagan Administration cut the budgets and staffs of the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other supervisory agencies. In a Yankelovich poll conducted for TIME this year, nearly 80% of the Americans surveyed said the Government sides too often with business when it comes to environmental issues...
...When the loan matures, you may have the opportunity to renew it on similarly favorable terms. The borrower has an incentive to stick with you: by doing so, even at an above-market rate, he saves what may be thousands of dollars in a new set of processing fees, points and closing costs...
...crucial steps: 1) construct a plot with plenty of corpses and exfoliating complexities; 2) provide a beleaguered and therefore sympathetic hero, one whose problem involves not only solving a crime but avoiding extermination by a small army of people who do not wish the truth to be known; 3) set the action in a place that is inaccessible and romantically forbidding -- in the case of Gorky Park, Moscow and environs...
...congressional letters and the Corcoran withdrawal incited the ire of arts partisans who contend that withholding funds or threatening to do so amounts to Government censorship. Political whim, their argument goes, should not be the judge of art. What shocks one generation -- a Madonna set in a shabby tenement, for example -- is treasured by a later one. Moreover, art that flouts convention by dealing with the extremities of the human condition is the work most in need of support...