home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=92TT0095>
- <title>
- Jan. 13, 1992: From The Publisher
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 13, 1992 The Recession:How Bad Is It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 8
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Like many of our readers, a fair sample of TIME employees
- spent New Year's Day watching the back-to-back bowl games. We
- could do so confident in the know ledge that senior writer John
- Greenwald was hunched over his desk, writing this week's cover
- story on the economic gloom pervading America. Since 1981, John
- has brought diligence, common sense and level-headed analysis
- to TIME's coverage of a very turbulent economic period. Last
- week, though, he was struck that Americans feel the pain of this
- recession so keenly. "This one is different," he says. "The
- causes lie deeper. We haven't been investing in the future. Many
- people wonder if it is too late."
- </p>
- <p> Greenwald grew up in the sunny 1950s economy of Los
- Angeles, priding himself on his skills as a bodysurfer. When it
- came time for college, he enrolled at the University of
- California, Berkeley, planning to become a professor. By the
- time he completed his bachelor's degree in English, his growing
- interest in public affairs had spawned a new ambition to become
- a journalist. After taking a master's in journalism from
- Berkeley, Greenwald added a degree in public administration from
- the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As a
- reporter and later business editor for the Minneapolis Star,
- Greenwald focused on economics. Says he: "For many Americans,
- the 1973 oil shock brought home for the first time the fact that
- the U.S. economy was vulnerable to conditions in distant parts
- of the world."
- </p>
- <p> Keeping track of the changes that are transforming the
- American economy isn't easy. John's colleagues sometimes wonder
- how he manages to do it without generating mountains of paper.
- His plan for this week's cover story was outlined in a dozen or
- so brief phrases on a single sheet. He admits he will break
- discipline for important matters, like taking time off last
- Wednesday to tune in Berkeley's 37-13 stomping of Clemson in the
- Citrus Bowl. But he is reassuring: "I wasn't distracted for
- long, since they had the game won in the first quarter."
- </p>
- <p>-- Elizabeth P. Valk
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-