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Nonetheless, there remained the central question regarding the Soviet psychiatrists: whether admitting them or barring them was more likely to encourage reform. For a year, outgoing W.P.A. president Costas Stefanis of Greece had doggedly lobbied for readmission on the grounds that it would encourage rehabilitation. He contended that the Soviets as members of the W.P.A. would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit...
...which slowing growth will force some companies to restructure or combine with healthier partners. Instead of the robust annual sales growth of 15% to 20% that the industry enjoyed in the early 1980s, computer revenues will expand an estimated 6% to 8% during the next few years. That pace would delight most industrialists, but among computer makers it represents an abrupt comedown. Profits are being squeezed even more. Last week the world's No. 1 and No. 2 computer makers announced sharply lower earnings during the most recent quarter. IBM said its profits declined nearly 30%, to $877 million...
While the computer industry offers more products than ever before, the vast majority represent incremental improvements or product refinements, "not leaps and bounds," contends Mitchell Kapor, the creator of the top-selling Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Kapor believes the industry has failed to develop products that would make technology easier to use. Says he: "The industry is shooting at the wrong target. It continues to emphasize power at the expense of usability. It's paying too much attention to the engine and not enough to the dashboard...
...keep his read-my-lips campaign promise of "no new taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...
...proposed dropping the hundreds of extraneous spending programs -- and the capital-gains cut -- from the budget- busting bill. But Darman turned down the offer, thinking he could get the kind of trimmed-down budget he preferred as well as the capital-gains cut. When it became clear the Administration would be charged with favoring capital gains over budget cutting, Darman relented. But by then it was too late to stop sequestration from taking effect...