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...exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression. He likes China, with its long tradition of trading and haggling, where the traders and hagglers are finally loosed from their communist yoke. Last week he gave me his latest favorites: Ghana, Zimbabwe and Iran. His No. 1 short these days? A prosperous country with an untrustworthy currency whose government can't control its spending: the good old U.S. of A. "The rest of the world wants to be like what we were...
...Western eyes, the incendiary rhetoric and exuberant loutishness of this barnstorming Bonaparte have marked him as something of a buffoon. But to many Russians, Zhirinovsky offers a kind of touchstone for their deepest yearnings and frustrations. Less than three years after throwing off the communist yoke, Russia is ensnared in a financial, political and spiritual crisis as great as any in its thousand-year history. The economy is tottering like a besotted barfly. Crime and corruption are rampant, and citizens who once took pride in their nation's world-class stature now find themselves shoved to the margins...
Difficult as it is to get the hardware to work, the software may be even more perplexing. Creating the system that will yoke together a bunch of Orlandos, each designed by a different cable-TV or telephone company, is expected to be a nightmare. Even more critical, say some experts, is the software that presents viewers with a menu of offerings. If the new TV controls are much more cumbersome than channel dials or up-and-down buttons, viewers may simply refuse to use them...
...release of McArthur's comments, the Globestory implied, was calculated to coincide with therelease of Rudenstine's report. The story painteda picture of a Business School, under McArthur,trying to throw off the yoke of Rudenstine'sleadership, and trying to excise itself from anysignificant degree of participation in the funddrive...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...