莱文不愿对上周的评论做出评论，但有迹象表明这位董事长的强硬立场起码在一定程度上有所松动。在上个月的股东大会上，大家就摇滚乐的歌词问题进行了讨论。莱文强调“音乐不是社会丑恶现象出现的原因”，他甚至还以他的儿子为例，后者是纽约州布朗克斯的一个教师，他用说唱音乐的形式与学生进行交流。但他也谈到了创作自由和社会责任之间要“保持平衡”的问题。他还宣布，公司将全力为那些可能引起人们反感的音乐制定各种发行和标识的标准。

　　总的来说，时代--华纳公司的15位董事是支持莱文和公司的经营策略的。但据内部消息人士透露，其中有几位董事对此事表示担忧。“我们中的一些人多年来一直都知道宪法修正案第一条所说的自由并非毫无限制的自由，”鲁斯说，“但我觉得与公司有关系的一些人可能是最近才意识到这一点。”

　　Passage 5

　　Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as “steering the economy to a soft landing” or “a touch on the brakes”, makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth. The link between interest rates and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy. Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear view mirror and a faulty steering wheel.

　　Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about of late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July. This is a long way below the double digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s.

　　It is also less than most forecasters had predicted. In late 1994 the panel of economists which The Economist polls each month said that America’s inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995. In fact, it fell to 2.6% in August, and expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.

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