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Lester Turning Points Thurow, in Harvard Magazine (July-For America Aug. 1976), P.O. Box 301, Uxbridge, Mass.
01569.
MIT economist Thurow looks at what lies ahead for the economy in America's third century and finds some serious problems obscured current misconceptions. Contrary to popular belief, he contends, economic growth has not brought us more leisure time, but less: "American families are working more and more, with fewer and fewer hours at home." (Hours of paid work by women...

Lester Turning Points Thurow, in Harvard Magazine (July-For America Aug. 1976), P.O. Box 301, Uxbridge, Mass.
01569.
MIT economist Thurow looks at what lies ahead for the economy in America's third century and finds some serious problems obscured current misconceptions. Contrary to popular belief, he contends, economic growth has not brought us more leisure time, but less: "American families are working more and more, with fewer and fewer hours at home." (Hours of paid work by women...

Con- gress and the Securities and Exchange Commission in an "erratic and inequitable application of existing but inadequate statutes." Critics in the business community accuse the SEC of exceeding its 1933 Congres- sional mandate calling for disclosure of all "material" informat"ion about a publicly owned company-that is, only information of signifi- cance to an investor. The SEC seems to regard all "improper acts" as "material." Moreover, critics charge,...

new job opportunities, the costs to the town of providing services were greater than the net tax revenues generated, especially if new water and sewerage facilities were needed. The Worst error? Overestimating population growth and building fa- cilities for people who never arrived.
"Why Bosses Turn Bitchy" RosabethDistinctions, Moss Kanter, in Psychology Today (May Not Differences 1976),P.O. Box 2990, Boulder, Colo. 80302.
Why don't more women seek or find career success? Is it because...

new job opportunities, the costs to the town of providing services were greater than the net tax revenues generated, especially if new water and sewerage facilities were needed. The Worst error? Overestimating population growth and building fa- cilities for people who never arrived.
"Why Bosses Turn Bitchy" RosabethDistinctions, Moss Kanter, in Psychology Today (May Not Differences 1976),P.O. Box 2990, Boulder, Colo. 80302.
Why don't more women seek or find career success? Is it because...

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and the educational institutions that supply it. She likewise opposes a shift to technical and vocational training (the National Planning Association says that of all jobs available, 80 percent involve essentially routine tasks requiring no particular skills).
A realistic solution, Berger argues, must take account of those who regard education as a tool for self-discovery. When bonded with the New Consciousness, celebrated in 1970 in Charles Reich's b...

2025, while higher mortality rates in
the poorer, hungier countries gradually cut average world life ex-
pectancy from 55 years in 1975 to 45 in 2025, world population will
stabilize for the following 50 years, while mortality slowly decreases
and life expectancy rises to 63. This last projection suggests a stable
world population of about 6 billion 2075 but, says Echols, the
price will be "terrible suffering for the less developed Southern
Hemisphere."
"Save Energy,...

Edmund Faltermayer, in Potential Fortune (Feb. 1976), Time & Life Build- ing, New York, N.Y. 10020.
Solar energy might seem to be the perfect solution to our energy prob- lems-it is "everlastingly abundant" and completely benign to the en- vironment. But sunpower has inherent limitations, Faltermayer says. It cannot be stored for long or transported far (unless converted to electricity). More serious is "the high cost of gathering the sun's free energy." Equipping a house...

West Germany and France to sell nuclear fuel facilities to Brazil and Pakistan may mark the collapse of American hopes for halting nuclear weapons proliferation. Why? The plants and technology required to en- rich uranium and reprocess plutonium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants can also produce material for atomic bombs.
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff urges the United States to persuade other nuclear exporters to control future uranium enrichment and plutonium reproc-...

'Learning About Crime-The JapaneseSocial Exclusion Exnerience" bv David H.Bavley, in The In Crime Control public ~nterest(Summer 1976), 10 E.
53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
In affluent, urbanized Japan, the crime rate has declined to a 25-year low, and the downward trend continues. Comparable statistics indicate there are four times as many serious crimes per capita in the United States as there are crimes (of any sort) in Japan. Even drug-related crimes, once a serious Japanese problem,...

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