Word: tibor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tibor Grau still has much to learn. The son of a Jewish banker named Von Grau, a furtive homosexual, a teacher and philosopher of sorts, he survives wartime exile in Stalin's U.S.S.R. by following the principle: "You must lie to survive. But what is a lie?" The tale of the frogs keeps reappearing in new forms. Military Interpreter Grau tells it to some German war prisoners as a parable of how an arrogant team of jumping frogs lost at the Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with...
...example, is unfeasible because any talented employees and much business would be lost between announcement and shutdown. Alexander Trowbridge, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, calls the bill "a mixed bag of well-intentioned motives, faulty law and a flawed understanding of how our economic system actually works." Tibor R. Machan, professor of Marxist economics and business ethics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, charged: "This proposed piece of legislation is the abandonment of due process when it comes to dealing with members of the business community. More and more, people in business are regarded as guilty...
Critics and champions alike once recognized capitalism's remarkable vitality and adaptability, but those qualities seem to be declining. Says Stanford Economist Tibor Scitovsky: "The joints of that once wonderfully flexible structure are becoming more and more calcified and rigid...