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THIS ESSAY OUTLINES GENERAL SOVIET ATTITUDES & ORIENTATIONS, THE PREFERRED SOVIET STRATEGY OR OPERATING STYLE FOR PURSUING THEIR GOALS, THE TYPES OF CONCERNS THAT COULD TRIGGER MORE EXTREME OR MILITANT SOVIET OPTIONS, & THE CHARACTER & SHAPE THESE OPTIONS COULD POTENTIALLY TAKE IN THE PERSIAN GULF.

ARTICLE SEEKS TO APPLY ELEMENTS OF COALITION THEORY TO THE SOVIET POLITICAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS, AND THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGES WHICH HAVE LED TO AN EVOLUTION OF THE SOVIET POLITICAL SYSTEM SUCH THAT COALITION THEORY BECOMES DESCRIPTIVE. THE ELITE AND POWER DISTRIBUTION ARE DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF FUTURE CHALLENGES.

"We introduce a new data set on over 230,000 monthly prices for 10 goods in 50 Canadian cities over the 40 year period from 1910 to 1950. This coupled with previously published price information from the late twentieth century allows us to present one of the first comprehensive views of nominal rigidities and retail price dispersion over the past 100 years. We find that nominal rigidities have been conditioned upon prevailing rates of inflation with a greater frequency of price changes occurring in the 1920s and the 1970s. Additionally, the process of retail market integration has surprisingly followed a U-shaped trajectory, with many domestic markets being better integrated-as measured by the average dispersion of retail prices-at mid-century than in the 1990s. We also consider the linkages between nominal rigidities and price dispersion, finding results consistent with present-day data"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

In the United States, over 1/4 of all psychiatric emergency room visits each year are for chronically acute behaviors often labeled "parasuicidal," leading to a continuous loop of complaints and ineffective interventions. This book offers an effective way out. It introduces a theory that radically departs from current ideas about such behaviors