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...basic principle of the Alianza is that government aid and free enterprise should work together as neatly as a pair of greased pistons. In practice, it is becoming increasingly evident that the pistons tend to get stuck. The Alianza actually works to the detriment of free enterprise, argues Guillermo Moscoso, a United California Bank executive and cousin of Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. representative in the Alianza's inter-American committee. After a three-month study of Latin American economies, Moscoso concluded that government-to-government programs operate "to the exclusion of the knowledge, power and wealth that free enterprise could...
...told the HCUA that competition sometimes "saturates the market and causes insufficient earnings to any of the suppliers." It observed that "a customer is never forced to buy" and that "there are numerous problems of an open door policy which would lead to general abuse and to the detriment of the student body." This is nearly classic rationalization of monopoly. The argument is not necessarily invalid, but the HCUA should have gone to some lengths to see if present restraints on the HSA are sufficient and to determine what the real effects of limited or open competition might...
Riesman said he fears that the civil-rights organizations will continue to attract members to the detriment of the peace groups. He explained that especially since the signing of the limited nuclear test ban treaty there appears to have been a falling-off of interest in disarmament...
Like Norman Mailer, Goodman has chosen to become a personality as well as a writer. Unlike Mailer, he has not concentrated on this sideline to the detriment of his creative work. Goodman continues to produce books of dissent which have enormous social value for America...
...setback to national prestige. The Olympic Games, formerly an event for friendly athletic competition, have thus been recognized by the U.S. government as an appropriate test of the advantages of capitalism and communism. This has long been the opinion of numerous misled sports writers and individuals, much to the detriment of the games. Government interference will detract still further from the purposes of the games, perhaps to the extent of destroying them as sporting events...