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This is not a baseless worry. Foreign companies have expanded enormously in recent years, partly by importing, and in some cases improving upon American technology. Meanwhile, recession and the inflation of the past decade have taken their toll in the U.S. research and development community. Many American companies have cut back on investment into potentially risky new products. Federal funding for research has also been in increasingly short supply. The U.S. investment in R. and D. actually decreased during the early 1970s, and still remains too sparse for the scientific community's satisfaction. For example, funds for space projects...
...situation to do or what should I not do? I would think as an abstract matter, and not necessarily relating to this case, that as a general rule the public declaration attributing unethical conduct to another lawyer, be he a public official or not, assuming that to be baseless, might be conduct on which the committee on grievances would interest itself. That's what we are talking about...
...melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless...
...threatened to involve the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 18-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The U.S. last week ended a worldwide military alert called to forestall apparent Soviet troop moves into Egypt; after briefly chiding the U.S. for giving in to baseless fears, Moscow then let the matter drop...
Thieu's new confidence is not baseless. If the Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing...