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...nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Japan was criticized indirectly for being overly preoccupied with its domestic economy to the detriment of other Asian nations; those countries have grown dependent on Japanese growth for their own prosperity. Fukuda recognizes that Japan can ill afford beggar-thy-neighbor policies. "From now on, we all have to cooperate," he concedes. "But the first priority is stabilizing the situations within each country." Meaning: Japan can best fulfill its responsibilities to others by keeping its inflation rate down, at the price of slower growth...
...Russian wife Irene and their son Andrew, 9, Dolgun has now been in the U.S. for 41 months. Has the America he found lived up to his expectations? Yes, he insists. "In the So viet Union, some of my friends told me I'd be a pauper, a beggar, when I came home. Even Irene was worried that at my age I'd have trouble making a living. But I never worried." In the 15 years following his release from camp, besides working for that Moscow medical publishing house, Dolgun translated many English-language scientific books into Russian...
...just forget about Vietnam. The dead wouldn't mind, the theory seemed to be, and the living could trust in the benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...
...Eidegger, 'Eidegger was a boozy beggar...
...OPEC. Through subsidies and dumping, nations would drive all-out to increase their exports; meanwhile, through stiffer tariffs and quotas, they would wall out imports. Such a mercantilist policy could lead to a tragic rerun of the 1930s, when most of the industrial nations were intensively trying to "beggar their neighbor." The result was a disastrous contraction of world trade and paralysis of the international monetary system. Thus the answer to the crisis created by high oil prices, conclude Simon and Kissinger, is not a recycling mechanism but a concerted effort to bring those prices down...