Yet another Lindsey head-scratcher: Your chief economicadviser is just now discovering, in 2001, that depreciation schedules for software and computers are too long.
In yet another indication of Gorbachev's true intentions with respect to structural economic reform, his new economicadviser, Oleg Ozherelev, urged in a 27 March interview with the Financial Times the reimposition of central control over all supplycontracts between the state and enterprises, rejected radical privatization plans and called for a further slowing down of the transition to a market economy.