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...partly induced by rampant protectionism, GATT members have completed seven major negotiations that virtually eliminated tariffs among Western nations. Partly as a result, postwar trade grew at an annual rate of almost 7% in real terms from 1948 to 1973. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 5 million jobs depend on foreign trade, while last year exports accounted for 8% of the gross national product, up from 4.1% in 1960. But since 1980 the continuous upward curve has turned around and begun to drop. No improvement is expected this year...
Another avowed walker is Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science. "I used to run a great deal, three to six miles every day, but now I depend mostly on brisk walks. I just didn't have the time it took to run--an hour out of every day. And I find walking keeps me in pretty good shape. The nice thing about it is I can often work it into just walking around Harvard, from the Science Center to the Square...
...start of a five-day trip to Latin America, he found a country in dire economic straits. Each subsequent stop during the journey--in Colombia. Costa Rica, and Honduras--will present Reagan with a similarly gloomy picture. The central dilemma for all of these countries is the same--they depend on exports to the United States and other developed nations for economic solvency. But the industrialized world, in the midst of a recession, cannot continue to gobble up Latin American goods and spit out cash or other products in return. Instead, it is erecting more and more exchange barriers--despite...
...shorter distances, Haggerty--in his first year in the top spot--will depend on senior Jay Hudson, Bernard Goodwin, and Vincent Ho Hudson is coming off a very good season and looks quicker in training than a year...
...proposals on nuclear-arms reduction, and for the stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting that new approaches to the Kremlin depend on "Soviet conduct," especially in Afghanistan, "an acid test of Soviet readiness . . . to exercise restraint." Kohl said later of himself and Reagan: "We are on the same wave length...