Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to insisting on speedy and certain punishment-that is psychologically sound and socially just to both offender and victim. For truly dangerous and vile criminals, let the punishment be prison, never capital punishment. Let's assign other offenders to labor and service to the community. This kind of loss of liberty and leisure is punishment; yet the offender would be making some kind of social retribution. Please, let's not build any more jails...
...demands a decisive policy that goes much beyond talk. It should be a threefold strategy, of immediate steps to stem the dollar's decline, medium-term measures to correct the dollar's underlying weakness, and long-term reform that would stabilize the American currency inside a more certain monetary system. In sum, the U.S. can come to the aid of its currency if it takes a mix of actions...
...should join the trend toward more managed exchange rates, something of a compromise between fixed and floating rates. World central banks would have to cooperate closely, buying and selling currencies in order to keep the rates within certain ranges. Former Under Secretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa says that a first step toward this arrangement would be to set up "reasonable ranges of value for the three key currencies - the dollar, mark and yen." Other currencies would quickly fall into line behind the big three. The IMF could monitor national economic activity and recommend when currency values should...
Strong talk from a corporate chief. But Fletcher Byrom's business is to deal with change. He is unsure what kind of institutions should replace those that exist today but of one thing he is certain: we had better start planning right now for the competitive demands of the 21st century...
Insulin is widely used for the treatment of certain diseases, but it is difficult to obtain and expensive now. If Gilbert's experiment had succeeded, he could have extracted insulin more quickly and much more cheaply...