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Though federal regulation should help to end these remaining abuses, passing laws in general is not a full answer to credit problems. Credit counselors assert that much of the legislation of recent years has been ineffective because most consumers do not know their rights under the laws. That points to a broader problem. Borrowers in general are appallingly ignorant of the basic economics of credit. Says Boston Debt Counselor Mel Stiller: "People are not taught in school how to use credit and how to do family financial planning. They just never learn how to survive in modern economics...
Teilhard's works have become "the property of a cabal of admirers, quite outside the mainstream of modern thought," assert the Lukases. Opinions vary on whether that will change. The secular scientists whom Teilhard had hoped to attract tend to ignore his work. British Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper recently dismissed him as one of the "great charlatans" of modern letters. His influence among Protestant thinkers is minimal...
...nomination comes in the middle of a concerted effort by an assortment of Pentagon admirers to assert the cause of higher defense spending at the outset of the Carter Administration. The opening of the current push to expand America's nuclear arsenal was signaled during Ronald Reagan's campaign against former President Ford in the Republican primaries last spring. From New Hampshire to Texas, Reagan charged that the Soviet Union had opened up a dangerous numerical lead in strategic weaponry, a lead that could only be erased by substantial increases in American defense spending. After gaining his party's nomination...
...Warnke is true to his belief in unilateral restraint, the arms control impact process could be a useful device with which to assert his agency's mandate against the burgeoning demands of the Pentagon. But again, the success of his efforts will depend largely on administration support, both in the public tone it sets for arms control and in its long term plans for weapons procurement. Carter's recent advocacy of arms control will come to naught if it is not followed by decisive action in the bureaucratic battles that are sure to follow in the months and years ahead...
...Critics assert that in letting deposits remain in the ground, gas producers are putting their balance sheets ahead of the public interest. Yet, there is nothing that the Government can do about this kind of withholding. Producers have a legal right to sit on gas until they judge the price to be proper-so long as the fuel lies under private land. But a quarter of all U.S. natural gas is pumped from fields leased from the Government. Producers are obliged in their leases to exercise "due diligence" in getting that...