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Economically speaking, money spent on arms is largely wasted, siphoned off from the precious pool of capital like a big leak. (In the old days, swords could at least be beaten into plowshares. Try beating a tank into a tractor.) And though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference...
Last year 38-year old Joseph Bakaleynick was a bureaucrat helping to run the Soviet Union's planned economy as an official in a tractor factory...
Then again, maybe John Madden, the rumpled gent who whoops the game for CBS, is right about mud. Why not haul a few dozen tons of good, dirty dirt into the Superdome, the way they do for those tractor pulls that ESPN broadcasts...
National Guard units from California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have joined in border stakeouts, searching cargo at crossing points and ports, eradicating marijuana fields and providing helicopter lifts for law- enforcement agencies. At Nogales a score of Arizona Guardsmen have helped Customs triple inspections of tractor-trailer rigs heading north...
Their findings were hardly encouraging. The Ursus tractor plant outside Warsaw, which once supplied farm equipment for the entire East bloc, was operating at only a fraction of its capacity. At the OMIG electronics factory, the building was crumbling and the technology 25 years old. "The Poles are doing very well with the tools they have," said Robert Galvin, chairman of Motorola. "But to be competitive they need entirely new operations...