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...like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships to pick up the slack...
...career performance, but crass materialism is on the wane. Marian Salzman, 31, an editor at large for the collegiate magazine CV, believes the shift away from the big-salary, big-city role model of the early '80s is an accommodation to the reality of a depressed Wall Street and slack economy. Many boomers expected to have made millions by the time they reached 30. "But for today's graduates, the easy roads to fast money have dried up," says Salzman...
Eastern Europe remains a risky, often maddening place to do business. One of the first tasks of Western companies is to retrain local labor forces that grew slack under communism and lack disciplined work habits. Simple bookkeeping can be a major problem: East European companies have been taught to follow central plans, and know little about Western-style profit-and-loss statements. At the same time, Eastern Europe's infrastructure is woefully inadequate for modern industry and commerce. A recent study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank estimated that the region would require 274,000 miles of new roads...
...approach to become today's prosperous graybeards. Many media watchers had recognized similar prospects for 7 Days, which in April won a National Magazine Award for general excellence. It was an ironic epitaph: the magazine had gone out of business one week earlier, citing low ad pages, a slack economy and a dearth of interested buyers...
...alien smuggling," says Robert Penland, who retired last month as the INS's assistant commissioner for antismuggling. "When he was deposed, there were 12,000 Chinese and 4,000 Cubans just stranded in the pipeline in Panama." Since then, other smuggling organizations have moved in to pick up the slack...