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...have computers made workers more productive? Stephen Roach, a senior economist at Morgan Stanley, says white-collar productivity has been stagnant since the 1960s. By contrast, blue-collar productivity has improved by a factor of four. "Companies thought that by simply buying boxes they would somehow make people work harder," says Roach. It didn't happen, Roach discovered, largely because the technology failed to reach the top: while back-office support jobs have been automated, less than 10% of senior executives even use personal computers...
Director David McMahon did a magnificent job of organizing what could have been utter chaos. At times, characters were stranded on stage without any lines. McMahon covered up any potential awkwardness by providing alcoholic relief in the office--a frequent resort for characters who might have otherwise been stagnant...
MOSCOW--Secretary of State James A. Baker III failed yesterday to break a stalemate on arms control treaties with the Soviet Union, but he offered praise for Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's efforts to defuse tensions in he Baltic republics and to energize his stagnant economy...
...Crimson reporter who interviewed me for the February 4 article ("E. Europeans Visit Med School") entirely missed the point of the project and misrepresented our motivations for inviting our Czechoslovak counterparts to this country. I was quoted as saying, "They basically said. 'We need help. We've been stagnant for 40 years.'" Our group of 15 second-year students at Harvard did not spend one year raising $10,000 to bring them here out of a sense of pity or beneficence, as that misquotation implies. We did it because they let us know that they were looking for new directions...
While economists of all persuasions warn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, our culture entries us with the promise that "Yes, you can have it all." Boosting stagnant productivity growth, restoring our decaying infrastructure, erasing our chronic fiscal hemhorrage--all of these problems absolutely require that we restrict our consumption and increase savings and investment. In a nation that can't accept that losing weight requires eating less and exercising more, this is a tough sell indeed...