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...trade barriers that make their markets difficult to penetrate with imports other than raw materials. Partly as a result, the U.S. trade deficit with Japan has increased from $20 billion in 1983 to an estimated $35 billion for 1984. Says Lionel Olmer, Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade: "Our complaint has been that their system is not as open to our goods as our system is open to their goods." Trade specialists within the Administration counseled the President to "get tough" with the Japanese by demanding specific commitments to increase purchases of foreign- made finished products...
...seaport town of Dover, writing a brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. But Dover Beach was not a celebration of the age; it was a lament, a complaint and a prayer. Looking coldly and sadly at what he saw as his country's destructive self-confidence, Arnold despaired that the advancement of knowledge should be attended by the loss of human feeling...
However valid her complaint might be, the timing of Kirkpatrick's latest protest raised questions about her motive. She has revealed her desire to leave her U.N. post and to find a position closer to the power centers in Washington. But last month, President Reagan appeared to end her hopes with the assertion that he did not see any available foreign policy position in his Administration that would be "worthy...
...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...
...statement has not satisfied the intelligence agency, which took the unprecedented step of filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The CIA charged that ABC violated the FCC's Fairness Doctrine by broadcasting "outlandish statements" in "reckless disregard for the truth." (The fairness regulation requires that broadcasters "afford reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.") The CIA took the unusual action because the Supreme Court has indicated that federal agencies cannot sue news organizations for libel. In its complaint the CIA asked that the FCC order ABC to retract "all false allegations," and that it consider...