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Working with a group of East Germans, the Soviets are hoping to salvage hundreds of factories that are scarcely functioning because of poor maintenance, labor chaos and the flight of manpower abroad. Ironically, the Soviet specialists are striving to improve the distribution of consumer goods, one of the weakest links in the Soviets' own economy. Still, the experts from Moscow have accumulated a great deal of experience in rationing food and other essential goods. Iranians, who are suffering from chronic shortages of meat, eggs, cereals, kerosene and gasoline, recently received detailed questionnaires about their needs that were direct translations...
...well, staking out his own ground over the past year with a well-publicized campaign against nuclear arms. He has not hesitated to take credit for the pamphlet the council produced, largely at his behest, calling for disarmament. And he has also not hesitated to picture himself as the weakest incumbent, apparently in hopes that supporters of other candidates or undecided voters will come to his aid at the last minute, (a tactic that saved him in 1979). Wylie may not be as weak as he claims; using primarily his own funds, Wylie has spent more than any other candidate...
After all of the surplus votes from the candidates who reach quota are transferred to the second choice candidates, the election commissioners begin to work from the bottom up. The weakest candidates are declared official losers, and their supporting ballots are redistributed according to the second choice on each of these ballots...
Because the weakest candidates are taken out of the race faster than the strongest ones, the losing candidates' transfer ballots play the most decisive transfer role in the PR system...
...history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird has got half the worm. The Right Stuff, his best book, sandwiched between his two weakest, The Painted Word and this one, showed how accurate an eye Wolfe has for manners, fantasies, customs and hype, and how he can rise to a kind of ravenous comic brilliance when engaged with a subject he respects. There is no feeling of engagement in From Bauhaus to Our House...