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America's array of often contradictory trade restrictions are a major obstacle to raising its standard of living and strengthening its competitiveness, according to a study by economist James Bovard for the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. Tariffs and quotas cost each U.S. family an average of about $800 a year. Low-income households suffer more because they spend a greater share of their earnings on food and clothing, two of the most rigidly controlled imports. Despite efforts to eliminate quotas, more than 3,000 of them restrict foreign apparel and textiles, adding $40 billion to U.S. clothing...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: Fair Trade Fraud by James Bovard; TIME estimates}]TIME Graphic by Joe Lertola...
...TIME'S picture shows Alan J. Bovard, director of athletics at Michigan Tech, not Coach John MacTnnes, as the caption states...
...initial shock of the scandal had a devastating effect on the agency's top-level personnel. By the end of the first week, the scoreboard read: Commissioner Guy T. Hollyday, resigned under force; Assistant Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, resignation "withheld" pending further investigation; General Counsel Burton C. Bovard, placed "on leave"; and Deputy Commissioner Walter L. Greene, request for retirement granted...
...tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest...