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...reasonable not to make crude jokes," says Rosenblum. But he added: "we can do funny things without anyone wielding a whip of any sort over...
...pursuit of happiness" for Millet is the quest for a new woman-based eroticism, the key to MacKinnon's view of sexuality is gender. A crude distinction one could make between the two structuralist conceptions is the exploitation of women as viewed in sexual vs. economic terms--which translates roughly to the difference between repression and oppression...
...There are bills that would reduce imports of ^ copper, timber, even roses and "waterbed mattresses, liners and parts thereof"; bills that would penalize all imports from particular countries --mainly Japan, naturally--or groups of countries; bills that would require regular intervention in exchange markets. Many are based on a crude idea of reciprocity: buy more from us or we will buy less from you. Thus a bill drafted by Democrats, but boasting strong Republican support as well, would slap a 25% penalty tariff on anything imported from countries whose sales to the U.S. exceed by 65% or more their purchases...
...Saudis $2 to $2.50 less than the established OPEC price of $28 per bbl. While Middle East oilmen could not confirm last week that the Saudis had signed any such agreements, trade sources elsewhere said that the U.S. oil giants Exxon, Mobil and Texaco would buy some crude under the discount system...
...main beneficiary of any Saudi price cuts will be the Riyadh treasury. While lower crude-oil rates will mean fewer dollars per bbl., they could trigger an increase in sales. That would pump badly needed cash into a nation that has seen its foreign currency reserves drop by some $20 billion in the past year, to less than $100 billion...