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Long the world leader in machine-tool production, the U.S. has seen its share of the world market shrink from 21% in 1964 to a mere 7% now. More and more companies have begun turning to imported machine tools, especially from West Germany and Japan. Imports now serve fully 25% of the domestic market. "This type of situation is not just a problem," says Seymour Melman, professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University. "It is an unmitigated disaster...
...sending a coded message to report the first successful test at Alamogordo that read, "Babies satisfactorily born"-as if to urge innocence on evil. After Hiroshima, the historical fact could not be expunged; still one could avoid looking at the weapon directly. Only its inventors never seemed to shrink from their creation. The day of the Alamogordo explosion, J. Robert Oppenheimer stared out at the New Mexico flats and recalled a Hindu text...
...sizzling attack on "anti-socialist forces within Solidarity," TASS called the general strike threat "a declaration of war." Similar charges echoed throughout the East bloc. Noted a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "It looks like a collision course, and the Soviets are urging the Polish government not to shrink from...
...London and Rome, for instance, the most expensive round-trip ticket will fall from $1,180 for the old first class to $741 for club class (vs. $653 for economy). Club-class passengers will be separated from economy travelers by a portable curtain. This device enables the airline to shrink or expand the size of the club cabin according to the number of customers who wish to fly in that class...
...Reagan Administration is acutely aware of the problem. "We've let our maritime forces shrink to a size where we can't meet all the political commitments we have," says Navy Secretary John Lehman. The Administration's long-term goal, which so far has generated considerable support in Congress, is to reverse the current adverse trend in the rivalry at sea. Explains Lehman: "Parity is an unacceptable concept in naval terms. We're a maritime power, while the Soviet Union is a land power. We can live with stable parity in strategic terms [i.e., intercontinental nuclear...