Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Access Not That Difficult...
Although the vault is sealed and can only be visited with permission from the head of circulation services, Edward B. Doctoroff, getting access to the collection is not all that difficult. The process is similar to that for requesting a book from the overflow collection in the New England Depository Library--without the day-long wait. Just fill out a circulation card, hand it to a circulation worker, and soon The Memoirs of an Erotic Bookseller will be in your hands. But you can only keep it until the library closes...
...collection. Legend has it that the collection was started in the 1950s after a sociology professor found that the books on eroticism he needed for his research had been stolen or damaged. So the library set up the closed-stacks collection to make sure that scholars would have access to the research material...
...fundamental problem in U.S.-Japanese relations is that the two countries have different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan...
Washington unsheathed the newest weapon in its trade arsenal: a law requiring the U.S. Trade Representative to single out countries that systematically restrict American access to their markets. Encouraged by frustrated U.S. trade groups and corporations, legislators had Japan in mind when they passed the provision -- dubbed Super 301 -- as part of last year's trade bill. After listening to the conflicting advice of his evenly divided Cabinet, Bush responded to the prevailing protectionist mood in Congress and gave Trade Representative Carla Hills the go-ahead to put Japan on the Super 301 hit list, along with Brazil and India...