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though mrs. thatcher has pulled through other crises supporters wonder if her <unk> <unk> ways are the right formula today |
there 's a rising fear that perhaps mrs. thatcher 's style of management has become a political liability says bill martin senior economist at london brokers <unk> & drew |
the prime minister 's insistence on keeping a private <unk> of advisers including an economic <unk> who openly criticized former chancellor of the exchequer nigel lawson confused the financial community |
last week the strategy of playing the two experts off each other <unk> up mr. lawson quit in <unk> and sir alan walters the adviser announced his resignation within an hour |
the confusion could be costly |
currency traders <unk> mr. major wo n't defend the pound <unk> sent the british currency sharply lower friday against the dollar and west german mark |
analysts expect further jitters this week |
a continuing slide in the pound could force the government to push through another rise in the base rate currently N N |
that could <unk> a weak economy into recession |
economists have been anticipating a slump for months but they now say it will be deeper and longer than they had thought |
britain 's economy is developing rapidly toward <unk> says j. paul <unk> international economist with smith barney harris upham co. in paris |
a mild slowdown probably would have run its course by early N economists say while the <unk> downturn now expected could stretch into N |
recovery could be hampered if britain 's major trading partners in europe which are enjoying robust economic activity cool off as expected in late N and N |
that would leave mrs. thatcher little room for maneuver |
for the <unk> to win the next election voters will need to sense economic improvement for about a year <unk> |
though mrs. thatcher does n't need to call an election until june N she would prefer doing so in late N |
if the economy shows no sign of turning around in about year 's time she will be very vulnerable says john <unk> a <unk> at the london school of economics |
there 's an equally pressing deadline for the government to define its monetary and economic ties to the rest of the european community |
it has sent mixed signals about its willingness to take part in the exchange-rate mechanism of the european monetary system which links the major ec currencies |
at a june ec summit mrs. thatcher appeared to ease her opposition to full ems membership saying britain would join once its inflation rate fell and the ec <unk> capital movements |
since then the government has left observers wondering if it ever meant to join |
sir alan <unk> the monetary arrangement as <unk> in an article being published in an american economics journal |
that produced little reaction from his boss reinforcing speculation the government would use its two conditions as a <unk> for avoiding full ems membership |
despite the departure of mr. lawson and sir alan the <unk> over the ems could continue |
sir <unk> <unk> deputy prime minister and a lawson ally on the ems has signaled he will continue pressing for early membership |
of immediate concern is whether the thatcher government will continue mr. lawson 's policy of tracking the monetary policies of the west german <unk> and responding in kind when the frankfurt authorities move interest rates |
mrs. thatcher does n't like taking orders from foreigners says tim <unk> economist with <unk> & national holding plc |
as conservatives rally around mrs. thatcher during the crisis many harbor hopes last week 's debacle will prompt change |
we wo n't have any more of this <unk> behavior says sir peter <unk> a <unk> <unk> member of parliament |
the party is fed up with <unk> of good people |
it 's an <unk> expectation |
as long as a decade ago mrs. thatcher declared she did n't want debate in her cabinet she wanted strong government |
over the weekend she said she did n't intend to change her style and denied she is <unk> |
nonsense she told an <unk> yesterday on london weekend television |
i am staying my own sweet reasonable <unk> |
joseph l. <unk> chairman and chief executive officer of mcgraw-hill inc. was elected to the board of directors of this electronics manufacturer |
he succeeds the retiring james w. <unk> |
base data |
computers that once were the state of the art the <unk> bought three years ago are now <unk> |
as we <unk> start the search for <unk> we know the new one we purchase in hopes it will do despite every wonder that 's stated means more speed more graphics more memory too but also more quickly out dated |
<unk> <unk> |
<unk> <unk> |
i know when dividends are due when bonds should be retired but what gets by me every time is has the milk expired |
ralph <unk> |
daffynition |
<unk> <unk> to <unk> <unk> |
<unk> elliott |
wives may not benefit when men do chores |
when <unk> take on more <unk> they tend to substitute for chores done by the kids rather than by the wife |
rand corp. researchers linda <unk> and <unk> <unk> <unk> a large sample of married women with at least one child at home between the ages of six and N |
the women indicated which family member usually did various household chores and the <unk> share each did |
not unexpectedly wives whether working or <unk> did by far the most about N N of the shopping <unk> and cooking and about two-thirds of <unk> <unk> <unk> child care and family paper work |
only for <unk> and home maintenance did women do less than half |
but the researchers found that while children 's household tasks eased the mother 's burden <unk> the husband 's helping hand appears to <unk> the children 's load almost on a <unk> basis and to reduce the wife 's responsibility only modestly |
this pattern was particularly evident among more highly educated couples |
in these families <unk> took on N N more chores than in couples with only <unk> school education |
but the kids with highly educated parents did N N less <unk> than those in <unk> families |
it is clear ms. <unk> says that most of the effect of increasing education has been to shift who is helping the <unk> |
her share <unk> but only slightly |
nursing home patients apt to be private <unk> |
far fewer elderly nursing home residents bankrupt themselves than was previously believed two recent studies declare |
state governments place very low <unk> on how much property people may own or how much income they may keep if they want welfare help on medical bills |
conventional wisdom has long held that anywhere from <unk> to one-half of all elderly long-term care patients are obliged to spend themselves into poverty before <unk> for medicaid assistance |
but separate reports from <unk> <unk> and <unk> <unk> of the <unk> institution and <unk> <unk> of the urban institute find that a surprisingly small proportion only about N N of residents start out as private <unk> but spend down to medicaid levels in a single nursing home stay before they die or are <unk> |
another one-third are already on medicaid when they enter the nursing homes a considerably higher proportion than the analysts anticipated |
but a <unk> high percentage over half are private <unk> throughout their stay even a fairly lengthy one |
about one-third pay out of their own pockets while the rest are covered throughout by medicare private insurers or the veterans administration |
both reports are based on several thousand patients <unk> in a N nationwide government survey |
the <unk> and urban institute authors caution however that most nursing home stays are of <unk> short <unk> and reaching the medicaid level is more likely with an unusually long stay or repeated stays |
moreover they note those who manage to pay their own way often do so only by selling their homes using up life savings or drawing heavily on children and other <unk> |
reagan era young hold liberal views |
the reagan generation young men and women reaching political maturity during ronald reagan 's presidency are firmly liberal on race and <unk> according to <unk> the social science research center at the university of chicago |
many political analysts have speculated that the reagan years would produce a <unk> conservative younger generation |
<unk> 's most recent opinion surveys find the youngest adults indeed somewhat more <unk> and <unk> than other adults |
but says chief investigator tom smith this does not translate into support for <unk> in general or into conservative positions on <unk> and civil rights issues |
answers to a dozen questions in the N N N and N national surveys reveal that men and women in the N to N age <unk> are considerably more liberal on race and <unk> than were the N to N year <unk> in <unk> 's <unk> in the early 1970s and early 1980s |
they were also as liberal or more liberal than any other age group in the N through N surveys |
for example N N of the N to N year <unk> in the four latest surveys favored an open housing law <unk> homeowners from refusing on racial grounds to sell to prospective buyers |
that compares with N N of the similar age group in the N through N surveys and N N in the N through N surveys |
asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the claim that men are <unk> better <unk> to politics than women N N of the reagan generation disagreed compared with under N N of younger men and women in the earlier years |
odds and ends |
<unk> and <unk> men and women are far more likely to be smokers than married persons the centers for disease control <unk> |
graduate students are taking longer than ever to get their doctor of philosophy degrees the national research council says |
it estimates the time between college <unk> and the <unk> of a <unk> d. has <unk> by N N over the past N years with the average gap now ranging from about N years in the physical sciences to N years in education |
october was an <unk> month for the practitioners of glasnost the official soviet policy of allowing more <unk> from the nation 's media |
for one of the <unk> of glasnost <unk> korotich editor of the <unk> weekly <unk> friday oct. N was a <unk> day that turned from tension to <unk> |
he had been summoned to the central committee of the soviet communist party after he finished his lunch at the <unk> hotel an unlikely prelude to a bureaucratic <unk> <unk> <unk> naked <unk> float on their <unk> toward a ceiling <unk> with <unk> all surrounded by <unk> laid on with a <unk> <unk> 's <unk> and supported... |
why had mr. korotich been called |
i told my driver he said that he was taking my <unk> to the central committee so they can <unk> <unk> <unk> his hand made vigorous <unk> gestures on his left palm |
they feel the need from time to time to educate me |
and indeed as he later reported that was the import of the meeting |
anxious allies of president mikhail gorbachev are <unk> media leaders to take it easy to be careful not to do anything that could be used by mr. gorbachev 's opponents |
the government is nervous |
according to mr. korotich who was present mr. gorbachev 's publicized <unk> of the press on oct. N was more of a plea be careful boys use good judgment |
we 're standing in gasoline so do n't smoke |
u.s. and northern european diplomats confirm mr. korotich 's assessment that glasnost is in no immediate danger |
in fact a very <unk> soviet official told an american official at a diplomatic dinner that no change in the policy was contemplated |
the day after that conversation at the residence of the u.s. ambassador the <unk> editor of pravda victor <unk> was replaced by a college <unk> of mr. gorbachev 's |
<unk> <unk> have more to fear from mr. gorbachev than the <unk> <unk> he gave to the press |
at the end of the very week in which mr. korotich was called to the central committee <unk> was again <unk> its independence by printing a poll that showed that N N of the soviet population a <unk> believed that mr. gorbachev 's economic reforms perestroika would result in only <unk> change |
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