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...last gesture, believing that the money would provide a psychological lift but not actually be spent? Perhaps, but the weariness with Viet Nam, the suspicion of the Executive, runs deep in Congress. Moreover, while not optimistic about the practical impact of shoring up the Saigon forces, Pentagon experts contend that shipment of military supplies could be hastened to reach Saigon quickly. There is still some $175 million worth of equipment in the pipeline, but it is fully contracted and much of it is en route; it would be augmented by any new funding. The President's fact-finding general, Army...
...final innings. The seat would be so comfortable that you'd remain there until the final out, and thus become entangled in the mad post-game rush to the exits. And if you managed to escape that jungle with your wallet still intact, you'd then have to contend with the five o'clock rush at the subway station, which ensured but one thing--that your standing-room-only day had just begun...
Barnet and Müller begin soundly enough by identifying the main problem created by multinationals as one of policy lag. While nations plan on a coun-try-by-country basis, international firms view the world as a single unit and plan accordingly. Thus, Barnet and Muller contend, "the structural transformation of the world economy through the globalization of Big Business is undermining the power of the nation-state to maintain economic and political stability within its territory...
Through various accounting means, the authors contend, companies slide huge amounts of capital across national boundaries to escape high tax rates and pile up profits. By shifting production from one market to another, global firms leave unemployed workers behind. Powerful producers like auto, appliance and computer manufacturers have banded together in restrictive combinations to protect their revenues, the authors claim, and deprive consumers of a truly competitive market system...
...assimilating Jew repressed the crude Yiddish-keit of his inner being, says Cuddihy, so did the Gentile repress the id that was at the root of everybody's being. As Ordeal would have it: "The importunate 'Yid' released from ghetto and shtetl is the model, I contend, for Freud's coarse, importunate Td.'" Marx, like Freud, is depicted as an iconoclastic unmasker of the hypocritical civility of the Gentiles...