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...current slump does not necessarily signal the demise of American robotics. The industry is expected to perk up again by the end of 1988, partly because of increases in U.S. competitiveness caused by the falling dollar. Struggling American manufacturers have begun to adopt the electronic robot technologies of the Japanese and, like U.S. automakers, are moving their own assembly plants overseas to help cut costs. Above all, U.S. robotmakers have adjusted their own expectations of how the industry will perform in the future. "We're in a solid business with solid growth," says Bruce Haupt, a marketing manager...
...bring the Supreme Court back, after 25 years of wandering far from the meaning of the Constitution." Others contend that the Senate's constitutional responsibility to advise and consent does not extend to judgments of a candidate's philosophy. Says former Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bator: "If we adopt a political litmus test, our most distinguished members would fail...
...formally begun converting to metric. There was a time, while Britain was the U.S.'s major trading partner, when it would have been economic suicide to consider switching to metric. In fact, it was precisely such arguments that torpedoed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson's proposal that the U.S. adopt a decimal-based system in 1790. A study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures, declared the metric system valid for "contracts, dealings or court proceedings...
...only political issues that concern us are those that relate to our personal lives. If it can't happen to us, if we don't see it on the daytime soaps, then it simply doesn't matter. We truly have reached a sad state of affairs when we adopt so narrow a world-view...
Higher education officials admit that new pressures on their institutions, including increasing criticism of their practices and demands to cut the federal budget deficit, have forced them to adopt some of the characteristics of a special interest group. Specifically, universities have increased their lobbying effort to counter these threats...