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...world's third largest economy pumped up faster so that the Japanese can buy more foreign products. At a recent meeting of the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Japan was criticized indirectly for being overly preoccupied with its domestic economy to the detriment of other Asian nations; those countries have grown dependent on Japanese growth for their own prosperity. Fukuda recognizes that Japan can ill afford beggar-thy-neighbor policies. "From now on, we all have to cooperate," he concedes. "But the first priority is stabilizing the situations within each country." Meaning: Japan...
...make such imperialistic endeavor palatable. He says that it is important that South American countries are "healthy" and democratic, and an inevitable aspect of this condition is capitalistic enterprise. He does not call this imperialism and cites such actions as the encouragement of Colombian beef production to the detriment of American cattle interests. Fisher justifies the American presence in an underdeveloped country: "You can say that we ought to leave the Colombian under the palm tree because he's happy there. But I don't think he's happy--he's missing things, and he knows it, and I think...
...theory and on paper, New Jersey is one of the most favored states in the nation, ranking fourth in both per capita and median family income. But its tradition of politically powerful counties has tended to emphasize local rule to the detriment of that wielded from the statehouse in Trenton, and New Jersey has paid a high price for its localism. Higher education, public health and mental institutions suffer from inadequate funding. The state bears only 28.7% of the cost of local education, compared with the national average of 43%. Half the public money spent in the state is raised...
...even be necessary. Ford will have to contend with a constituency that remains fiercely loyal to Butz--the farmers, a group whose interests he has served diligently. Certainly, the Secretary of Agriculture should not ignore the interests of American farmers, but he should not serve them to the detriment of farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. American agricultural policies must begin to take the rest of the world into account. One of the Norwegian delegates in Rome suggested that Kissinger, Butz and other key ministers should be locked up in a room without food for ten days and then...
Miller has played the role of the democratic leader to the hilt, and perhaps to his own detriment. His aides have won the costliest contract (for the operators) in the union's history, provisions guaranteeing miners the right to withdraw from mines they feel are unsafe, pensions of $600 a month, and pay raises of 18 per cent that are a start in alleviating the lapses of the last 40 years, when coal miners fell behind other skilled union members in pay, benefits and everything else...