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Inflation is harmful in so far as it is uneven and unpredictable. To assert that major U.S. corporations have neither the knowledge to anticipate future cost increases, nor the ability to transfer that cost to the consumer in product prices, is to deny fundamental truths about multinational capitalism. The investment decision for these US-based firms, most of which continue to show record profits (out of which their investment is principally funded), is not so much a question of "if" but "where." Their tendency to choose foreign locations over domestic is the real problem with investment in America. Given...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: The Browning of America | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...mood are made decisive by Gilbert Hemsley's lighting. Conductor Julius Rudel kept things going so smoothly one almost forgot that this was a world premiere, the first time for everyone. For Rita Shane there can be only praise. Her acting was fiery, her singing confident, if uneven. It is hard to think of anyone, including Sills, who could have truly commanded the part. Miss Havisham's Fire burns a long time, but finally ends in ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Immolation of an Opera | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...wanted to see Cuckoo's Nest," he confesses, "but I was also curious to see how Gone With the Wind looked today. A lot of people who wanted to see it again were robbed of Cuckoo's Nest, and vice versa. The public is getting an uneven break during these sweeps weeks. Everybody is sick and tired of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...finances dedicated exclusively to programming, the commission suggests that the Endowment, a semi-autonomous division of the Trust, exist solely to concentrate on developing and financing new programs for noncommercial television and radio. The commission also suggests marked changes in nominating procedures for Trust officers to replace "the uneven and politically vulnerable process" which currently governs appointments...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...equipment can be hazardous," Mendez said yesterday. "We have to tumble on strip mats because there are no regulation floor exercise mats. The uneven parallel bars are dangerous and the balance beam is terrible," he added...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Harvard Gymnastics Struggles Without Facilities and Coaching | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

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