Commanding Heights; the corresponding Web site (.pbs.org/commanding heights) features
interviews with world leaders and economists that are sometimes quoted in these pages.
Tom Friedman's The World Is Flat filled in a lot of gaps in my understanding of recent techno logical
advances.
Interviews for this book were conducted with Bill Clinton, Stephen Breyer, Bob Rubin, Martin
Anderson, Gene Sperling, Paul David, and others. This account is also informed by the work
of my biographers. And the narrative throughout is influenced as well as inspired by the memoir
of my wife, Andrea Mitchell, Talking Back ... to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.
I have striven to minimize the inevitable errors of memory by drawing quotations, facts,
and descriptive details from primary documents, contemporary news accounts (in particular
from the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the
BBC, the Economist, Newsweek, and Time], standard reference works, and archival and market-
data services. The Age of Turbulence derives from six decades of accumulated knowledge; to
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INDEX
Abalkin, Leonid, 124-25, 126
ABC News, 80
Abqaiq oil facility, 440
Aetna, 229
Africa, 260, 335
see also specific countries
Agnew, Bob, 1
agriculture, 263, 281, 403, 453, 480, 495
in China, 295,301,320
future of, 470
in India, 320-22
savings and, 386n
Airbus, 397
airlines, air travel, 6, 7, 234, 421
deregulation of, 71-72, 81-82
airplanes, 42, 56, 397
Alaska, 452, 456, 457
Alcoa, 45, 49, 50, 77, 209, 428, 493-94
Alfonsin, Raul, 342
Alibris, 257
al Qaeda, 226, 227
Altman, Roger, 144
aluminum, 42, 49-50, 493
Amaranth, 371
American Enterprise Institute, 176-77
American Iron and Steel Institute, 46
American Statistical Association, 165
Anderson, Benjamin, 364n
Anderson, Martin "Marty," 57, 58, 60, 91,112
in Reagan campaign, 86, 88
Andrews, Mark, 479
Andropov, Yuri, 126
Anglo-Iranian Oil, 463
Anwar Ibrahim, 312
anxiety, 226-27, 239, 268, 504
Arabs, 62,274,446
Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company), 79-80,
439-40, 442
Archer, Bill, 185
Argentina, 157, 334n, 335, 337, 340-45
inflation in, 340, 342, 477
Armey, Dick, 156, 244
Ash, Roy, 67
Asia, 250, 335, 340, 354, 449
