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...down London's stock market, where average share prices have fallen 8.5% in the past three weeks. London's market has been buffeted by high domestic interest costs as well, with short-term rates hitting 15%. The Bank of England has been boosting rates to combat an 8% inflation spiral, which has been aggravated by double-digit increases in recent labor contracts. Case in point: last week Ford's British subsidiary agreed to a 10% wage increase for its unionized workers...
...shake-up came as Campeau's troubles threatened to spiral out of control. Anxious suppliers have refused to sell their wares to Campeau units for fear of not being paid. At the same time, Campeau's 100,000 U.S. employees are worried about layoffs, and many top officers have begun to seek new jobs. Says Robert Nesbit, a managing partner at Korn/Ferry, the world's largest executive-search firm: "I shudder at what is happening. Never before have the proud people at Allied and Federated sought us out. Now we are talking to three or four top divisional and corporate...
...measure proved to be only a partial solution. Last July a bribery scandal rocked the U.S. industry when three FDA reviewers pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from generic-drug companies. The revelations threw doubt on the efficacy of some generics. Meantime, drug prices continued their upward spiral -- primarily because of the fundamental forces that drive the modern pharmaceutical industry...
...minimum, Mikhail Gorbachev's dual program of glasnost and perestroika may collapse if the downward spiral is not halted by the end of 1990. At worst, the growing shortages of energy and food this winter could wreak social mayhem. "If we don't see improvement in the stores, we will soon see riots in the streets," warns a top Soviet criminal lawyer. "Anything could spark it. And the government would have to suppress it with force." Among the signals of trouble...
Unfortunately, simply treading water is no longer an option. The economy appears to be in a vicious downward spiral that requires radical action. The Heritage Foundation's Aron believes that in the coming months "Gorbachev will come to a sharp fork in the road. He will have to make a choice between a hard left or a hard right." Gorbachev and his reformist advisers know that a hard move to the right, toward a reassertion of police-state controls throughout society, would effectively end glasnost and perestroika...