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...foremost Big Business organization, Keidanren, handed the Prime Minister a detailed report calling for extensive trimming of the more than 11,000 rules that entangle nearly every aspect of the economy. The red-tape Everest is a major reason behind high consumer prices in Japan and an important invisible barrier to imports. The U.S.-based Economic Strategy Institute recently estimated that regulations and other measures bar as much as $200 billion in potential exports to Japan every year...
Students are also worried about the tuition. Last spring, Yale became the first college in America to break the $25,000-a-year barrier. Tuition, room and board now set a Yale family back $25,110, and there have been media reports that such high costs could drive away potential applicants. Admissions are themselves a campus issue. The Yale Daily Herald reported last month that fewer high school seniors have applied over the last four years, a greater percentage have been admitted and a lower percentage have matriculated...
Director and set-designer Katya Nelhams-Wright has created a claustrophobic environment where the entire play, set inside a public women's lavatory in future London, is enclosed in a cotton mesh cage. This effect at once alienates the audience by presenting a translucent physical barrier, and draws the audience in--with both the audience and the characters inches away from the mesh, one feels voyeuristic, peering in on the lives and private conversations of the all-woman cast...
...despite floods and droughts that cut agricultural output, the Commerce Department announced. Inflation sank to a 1.8% annual rate, the lowest since 1986. On the strength of that news and of strong corporate-earnings reports, the Dow Jones industrial average hit two record highs and briefly crossed the 3700 barrier...
Another oversight of Proposition 174 involved the issue of transportation. School choice allows parents to select schools from a wide variety of geographic locations with considerable commuting distances. In the interests of equity and fairness, the state should eliminate the artificial barrier of excessive transportation cost by providing tax credits to the parents who pay transportation costs out-of-pocket...