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...graduating class have just been named Presidential Management Interns in a national competition to identify able young people for a "fast-track" in the federal civil service. Society clearly benefits from having well-trained professionals with strong analytic skills and sensitivity to urban problems. Our students' career choices thus strengthen the influence of the planning profession rather than dilute...
...voice that sounds like retsina tastes, sharp and rich, Zombanakis argues that the U.S. must strengthen the dollar for many reasons, not least so Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC countries will continue to sell their oil for dollars To do that, he says, "Washington must realize that the dollar can no longer act as the sole reserve currency in the world. The dependence of the world on the dollar is not a blessing but a curse for America...
...strengthen the dollar, Zombanakis continues, governments must devise a new system, a collective responsibility that would spread the risks of financing international debts. One way would be to set up a world central bank that would issue a new reserve currency to supplement the dollar. Perhaps a revised International Monetary Fund could fill that role, in Zombanakis' view, and the IMF's Special Drawing Rights could serve as the new money. The SDKS would be backed by deposits from the countries that have large surpluses−notably Saudi Arabia, West Germany and Japan−as well...
...tells her tale through primarily male eyes. Her women, though they win sympathy and admiration, are secondary characters. They are either treated as such by their men or, if not, two out of three times they end up dying. Their deaths--Wanagi's and Ahbleza's wives die--only strengthen the men's resolve to be pure and unselfish; neither takes a second wife. This attitude indicates the novel's Hollywood morals; the good guys get better and win while the bad guys worsen and lose...
China's new rulers might put it more practically: no law, no Four Modernizations program to improve agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. "It is essential to strengthen the socialist legal system if we are to bring great order across the land," says Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. That means assuring bureaucrats, intellectuals and skilled workers essential to China's development that they will not be summarily sent off to the rice paddies or driven to suicide, as they often were under Mao. Fear of government highhandedness, party leaders now admit, has been running rampant. To boost morale...