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The government's rationale is that the 8 million French citizens who traveled abroad last year spent $4.9 billion, or more than a third of the trade deficit. The government hopes to slice that sum in half, although some analysts predict that, given the ability of most Frenchmen to...
Laudable in themselves and truly constructive in many communities, basic competency tests attempt to determine what students in all grades are learning by administering SAT-like batteries at least once a year. Massachusetts competency rules, actively implemented for the first time in 1980-81, allow communities to construct their own...
Once in a while, a job applicant thinks he can circumvent the selection mechanism by going straight to the source. One such overachiever from the state of Washington was a man who enclosed three newspaper clips of the exploits of three different people He claimed to be all three of...
Helms' attempt at cloture fell 19 votes short of the required two-thirds majority, but he will try again this week to end the talkathon. The Senator has vowed to fight a similar filibuster against another proposal, which would attempt to get around Supreme Court decisions banning prayer in...
By extending the embargo to include U.S. licensees abroad, Washington sought, in the words of one official, to "close a loophole." But, like most economic sanctions, the U.S. curbs on pipeline technology may be easy to circumvent. France's state-owned engineering firm Alsthom Atlantique, for example, could build...