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During his presidential campaign, Carter declared that he was "particularly concerned by our nation's role as the world's leading arms salesman." Last May, in issuing guidelines to change that role, he declared that the dollar volume of 1978 arms transfers would "be reduced from the fiscal year 1977 total" and that such sales would be "an exceptional foreign policy implement." The guidelines also stated that the U.S. would no longer be a "first supplier to introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling...
Nations may recover from dollar slides; and earthquakes may not destroy the U.S. We may forget that Super Bowls are played on the Sabbath, but as surely as God is holy, judgment falls on a nation whose sexual promiscuity and sex perversion is a way of life. As America arrives on the scrap heap of nations, Sodom and Gomorrah will ask: What took you so long...
...Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate ogler, Oakie could steal a scene by simply looking at a girl's legs...
...currency has almost totally been divorced from the quantity of gold that the country keeps in its vaults. As a result, the world's central banks now buy gold only rarely. Yet hard as several successive U.S. Administrations have tried to break the link between gold and the dollar, it still seems to exist, although in a reversed way; on certain days last month, the price of gold went up almost exactly as much as the price of the dollar, in terms of other currencies, declined...
...billion on research and development during the past decade, is still a prime moneymaker. In the first nine months of 1977 it earned profits of $417.3 million, down slightly from $429 million a year earlier, but Kodak's pretax operating profit is a lofty 26? of each sales dollar...