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...trick lies in getting just the right i.d. Long-known as the place for fake i.d.'s, HSA International Student i.d.'s, don't have much clout in Cambridge anymore. Anne A. von Germeten '86, the HSA travel manager, says she discovered this while investigating charges of the i.d.'s misuse. "I called up a lot of the places in Cambridge and found out the i.d. doesn't even work," she says...
Then, in August, when the Pentagon sent a military submarine on a maneuver through Canadian territory near the Arctic without asking permission, Brian Mulroney's Tory government hung its head in shame for the country's impotence. Criticism was lost in the wind; Canada had no clout...
Even developed countries resort to old-fashioned tariff walls. Japan, which generally has some of the lowest import fees in the world, imposes a 15% to 20% tariff on plywood because of the political clout of its lumber industry. In 1983 the U.S. hiked its duty on large motorcycles from 4.4% to 49.4% to protect Harley-Davidson, the last American manufacturer of the big bikes...
...industries and push exports. But that approach is unlikely to work in the U.S., which lacks the history and ethos of public-private cooperation. A U.S. industrial policy would likely end up in bureaucratic overregulation or logrolling favoritism, with Government aid going to the industries with the most political clout rather than to those that most need development. The Federal Government, of course, has a role to play in solving the trade problem. The most important thing Washington could do is to reduce the current $200 billion budget deficit. Perhaps half of this year's projected $150 billion trade deficit...
Until Strawberry's clout, the closest either team had come to scoring was during the Met seventh, when a Ray Knight single and a Rafael Santana double left men at second and third with one out. Darling missed a suicide squeeze bunt and pinch-runner Howard Johnson was tagged out at home. Darling popped up to end the inning...