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Many economists believe that Carter's proposals are more than adequate to stabilize farm prices without driving them so high that U.S. goods are forced out of foreign markets. High price supports, critics contend, fuel inflation, tempt farmers to grow more than they can sell and enable less efficient growers to pursue wasteful ways. So far, legislators do not agree-and unless they back down, the stage is being set for an open confrontation between Carter and a Congress controlled by his own party...
...Foster case as confirmation of Southern's alleged lack of committment to attracting as many students to Afro as possible. Observing that only one student in the class of 1980 applied to the department this year as a full-time concentrator (two freshmen will concentrate jointly in Afro), they contend that the policies of Southern do not promote the growth of Afro. The 1977 Concentrators' Report identifies an alleged stress on the humanities at the expense of the political and economic disciplines as a prominent reason for Afro's steadily decreasing number of students. Because Afro courses focusing...
...milkshakes-with-a-kick. Says Vice President Paul Shuman of Louisville-based Glenmore Distilleries Co., which rushed out strawberry, banana and white-chocolate 30-proof Snowshakes to compete with the Cows: "The milk-type drinks have leveled off to a very flat position in the market." But Heublein executives contend that Cow sales could hit a milhon cases this year, up from...
Begin, however, won in Israel partly because he was seen as a man who would stand up to American pressure. Is he as intransigent as his statements sound? In Israel, Begin's detractors contend that his stand against surrendering the West Bank has been too consistent and unambiguous to make credible the belief that he might substantially change his view. Even if he wanted to, it is possible that too many of his supporters have such a passionate commitment to holding all of ancient Eretz Israel that he could not survive if he betrayed his pledges...
While Rhodesia's Ian Smith, South Africa's Vorster and South African Bantustan Chief Gatcha Buthelezi insist that American investments provide jobs for South African blacks, the trade union groups and leaders of South Africa's black liberation movements contend that American dollars only serve to shore up the apartheid regime...