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...country's fiscal woes, Kohl has promised a program of cutting business taxes and nibbling away at West Germany's entrenched welfare system. The cost of social programs has grown exponentially, from $15 billion in 1960 to more than $250 billion in 1982. In a near stagnant economy, the problem is becoming worse. In 1981, for example, when 1.27 million West Germans were unemployed, the federal government paid out nearly $6.7 billion in various jobless benefits. Last year the total was around $9.7 billion. Similarly, in 1970 West Germany paid out about $48 billion, or more than...
...BROAD IMPLICATIONS of the growing teacher shortage are frightening indeed. The most obvious result is the inaccessibility of economic advancement to many students. One of the few areas of astonishing growth over the past ten years in an otherwise stagnant economy has been in the technological fields. Innovations in the computer industry, for instance, continue to open up a tremendous number of job opportunities. Locally, Boston-based genetic engineering is predicted to have a considerable effect on the area's economy. Yet in years to come, young people will find it increasingly difficult to secure a place in these burgeoning...
...Tennessee Williams' plays, grounded in the Deep South and illustrating unusual contrasts between the stagnation of the environment and the unique depravity of the characters. Altman manipulates the setting and the characters in a similar way by having the demoralization and depravity of the external world converge with the stagnant heat and aridity of the South. The brutal backdrop of the heat-filled environment sets off the characters' sweaty breathlessness as if the storm that hasn't come for 20 years was about to burst. And the film drowns out any potential for platitudes and mundaneness with the director...
...Charlie, Pfluger portrays a confused young man torn between his affections for Josephine and his repulsions from her stagnant family. Handsome, yet awkward, Pfluger seems unsure whether or not to take his character seriously. Although he portrays the most interesting character in the movie. Pfluger never seems truly alive or completely aware of his surroundings...
...THOUGH LEADERS fails in its primary task of providing insight into many of the world's leading actors, it does give an engrossing glimpse into a fertile, though dangerous, mind. For observers of a President way out of touch with the complexities of his office and wallowing in stagnant ideology, Nixon's intellectual abilities and grasp of world politics sounds frighteningly refreshing--or at least provocative...