deaths or retirement.
Races for such open House seats are scarce-and desirable, since they give local politicians the best chance to advance themselves. The past two decades have seen fierce competition among men for such opportunities. Women (despite their greater number in the U.S. population) are no match. Of the 19 who competed against men for party nominations in open-seat primaries from 1964 to 1970, 12 won. Yet, when 91 women ran for such open-seat nominations during 1974-80, only 21 won....
deaths or retirement.
Races for such open House seats are scarce-and desirable, since they give local politicians the best chance to advance themselves. The past two decades have seen fierce competition among men for such opportunities. Women (despite their greater number in the U.S. population) are no match. Of the 19 who competed against men for party nominations in open-seat primaries from 1964 to 1970, 12 won. Yet, when 91 women ran for such open-seat nominations during 1974-80, only 21 won....
Mark Falcoff, in Foreign Affairs(Spring 1986), 58 East 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Once a key source of raw materials, notably copper, Chile is now important to the United States mostly for ideological reasons. So says Falcoff, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
American liberals, he notes, tend to view Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship as yet another evil result of meddling the Central Intelligence Agency in the Third World. Conservatives, after a brief infatu- ation...
limiting Pinochet's control.
Above all, says Falcoff, Washington must act before Chile reaches "the point of no return."
"Dateline Holland: NATO's Pyrrhic Victory" by
Maarten Huygen, in Foreign Policy (Spring
1986), 11 ~&ont Circle N.w., washington,
D.C. 20036.
When Holland finally agreed last November to allow 48 U.S. cruise mis- siles on its territory, other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation (NATO) hailed the decision as a sign of the 37-year-old...
Peter F. Drucker, in The Pub-lic Interest (Winter 1986), 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Corporate "raiders" have become the bad boys of Wall Street. Since 1980, they have forced unwanted corporate mergers on 400 to 500 companies, or "targets," including Gulf, Union Oil, and the Bendix Corporation.
During these "hostile takeovers," a "raiderv-either another company or an individual speculator-acquires a majority share of the target compa- ny's stock offering...
a 'white knight" corporation invited in the target company), it can still turn a profit by selling back, at a higher price, the shares it bought.
What has prompted this outbreak of corporate cannibalism? Drucker, who teaches management at the Claremont Graduate School, sees a con- junction of causes. --
First, owing to the cumulative effects of post-Vietnam inflation, the cost of capital has outstripped the price of goods produced. "It thus be- comes economical," observes Drucker,...
one-third (as prices soared 240 percent) and health care services by one-fourth (those costs rose by 153 percent). Americans also offset above- average prices for meat, fish, and sugar by buying more poultry, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. All told, U.S. households curtailed consumption by 12 percent. But they also saved less money. Whereas the typical household spent 76 percent of its after-tax income in 1972-73, it was paying out 84 percent by 1982-83.
In the wake of the "baby boomH-Americans...
"The Declining Well-Being of American Adoles-cents" Peter Uhlenberg and David Egge- been, in The Public Interest (Winter 19861, 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Pointing to "leading indicators" of child welfare, social scientists and Wash- ington policy-makers predicted great progress for America's youth during the 1960s and '70s.
Indeed, the proportion of white 16- and 17-year-olds living in homes with poverty or large families or poorly educated parents-all factors...
140 percent. During that same period, the proportion of mothers in the labor force with children under 18years of age'rose from 28 percent to 57 percent; no evidence exists that fathers are filling the gap in parental supervision.
Citing a 1981 study pollster Daniel Yankelovich, the authors ob- serve that parents are clearly putting their own "self-fulfillment" ahead of their "commitment to sacrificing personal pursuits for their children's wel- fare." Until parenthood once...
Much of this "urban sprawl," notes McLeod, senior writer for Insight, stems from a growth of the U.S. population, up from 151 million in 1950 to 236 million in 1984. Another factor is economics: It is more convenient arid less expensive to set up shop on the outskirts of town. Pepsico, Texaco, IBM, and 'Xerox, for example, have all built new headquarters roughly 20 to 30 miles outside of New York City.
Urbanizing the once-tranquil world of green lawns and tract housing raises the tax...