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...have changed. People have begun to realize that the earth is getting too small for wars and that they have to put an end to the spiraling arms race. The burden of today's military spending has proved too heavy even for rich nations such as the U.S. To sum up, toward the end of the 1980s there appeared a glimmer of hope that the global political process could be demilitarized...
...will repeat that performance at New York City's Lincoln Center, a redoubt of sober establishment culture. "My work is not about entertainment," she says. "People usually leave my shows crying." After leaving one of them, her grandmother sent her a note. It was a mixed review that could sum up the dilemma that any unbridled artist poses for the NEA. "She said that I was talented," Finley recalls, "but also a toiletmouth...
Even for a billionaire, the $600 million penalty that junk-bond king Michael Milken has agreed to pay is a breathtaking sum. Milken will be forfeiting more money than any other felon in history. By another measure, the penalty is even larger than Union Carbide's $470 million settlement offer for the Bhopal disaster. Yet Milken's fortune, which has been estimated at $1.2 billion, is by no means wiped out. The frugal financier, who invested his monumental income instead of spending it, possesses an intricate web of assets that have been well sheltered from taxes and prying eyes...
...already bought into Hertz, General Motors is allied with Avis, and Chrysler owns Thrifty. Now a foreign manufacturer is getting into the act. Last week Mitsubishi Motors became the first Japanese owner of a U.S. agency when it bought control of Value Rent-A-Car for an undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi currently supplies 10% of Value's 20,000-car fleet, a share that will rise to 85% by year's end. After the agency has used the cars, it will turn them over to the company's dealer network for resale. And Mitsubishi hopes the arrangement will boost its profile...
...cold war adds new pressures. In spite of Gorbachev's insistence that there are no military solutions to East-West relations, his high command still tends to believe it is a zero-sum contest, a question of who prevails over whom. When Moscow loses the West wins, and vice versa. These days the Soviet Union is losing Eastern Europe and digging in hard to keep from losing one of its own republics. The U.S. is not only winning, many senior Soviet commanders feel, but gloating about the Soviet decline. "The American invasion of Panama was a gift for the generals...