Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ohira's shaky political mandate also dooms his proposal for a tax hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts...
Before the tests were re-introduced, college admission was based largely on political connections and correct ideology. Important bureaucrats pulled rank to get their children into the universities. The situation has improved since then, but the system is still not completely fair...
With three cases already pending which challenge the legality of the order, the students' wait-and-see attitude seems both sensible and correct. While the courts consider the problem, Harvard's International Office should continue to advise Iranian students about the documents they may need to satisfy the order. The choice however, as University officials rightly point out, should be left to individual students...
This portion of the book accounts for the most puzzling disproportion in Disturbing the Universe. Freeman Dyson is a proven scientific commodity. Robert Oppenheimer hailed his successful synthesis of two seemingly irreconcilable but equally correct theories of the electron as one of the century's breakthroughs. Now the Alfred P. Sloan foundation has asked him to contribute his bit to "the public understanding of the scientific enterprise...
...into playing a more assertive role in their region; on the other, they are sure to worry about how credible the U.S. performance will be. Said one prominent Saudi: "America has gotten a reputation for letting down its friends, and that won't be so easy to correct...