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Farnsworth also discussed LSD and held out some possibility that the drunk might be useful in, the treatment of chronic alcoholism and of addiction to other drugs. "We are not opposed to the use of these drugs for controlled research, but we are compulsively opposed to their uninformed and irresponsible...
With the unification issue no longer so heated, the campaigning centered on more relevant topics, notably Northern Ireland's chronic economic problem. O'Neill pointed proudly to the many foreign firms that he has lured to Northern Ireland, to a declining unemployment rate, to a diversifying economy no longer solely dependent on shipbuilding and weaving, and to an annual per-capita income that has risen from $779 to $980 in the 3½ years since he succeeded aging Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister...
Power & Glory. To run the metropolis-let alone build the City of Tomorrow-New Yorkers pay their mayor $50,000 a year. The job is a Sisyphean symphony in bureaucracy, chronic lists of incomplete projects, a populace crying 24 hours a day for the mayor's time. Many of its most worrisome aspects are out of the mayor's control. The most horrendous is the ever-lengthening welfare bill which will come to nearly half a billion dollars this year, and is rising at the annual rate of $75 million as more and more unskilled newcomers crowd into...
...Dutch beer, Swiss watches or Italian fashions, but it bothers the U.S. Government. The nation's trade surplus -the excess of exports over imports-is rapidly shrinking, thus reducing the base that the U.S. has used to support its foreign and military aid in the face of its chronic balance of payments deficit...
...chairman to intervene vigorously in the debate. The Common Market's crisis, argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade deficit with the Common Market, the problem is particularly nettlesome for Denmark, which depends on West Germany as a major market for its farm produce. Since the creation of the Common Market, that outlet has shriveled...