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According to this belief, if these partners keep their markets closed to our goods, they would only hurt themselves by forcing their consumers to pay higher prices for domestically--produced goods. Similarly, if our trading partners subsidize their companies to allow them to dump goods on U.S. markets by selling them at below cost, American consumers should accept such a gift even if U.S. producers are driven out of business by such unfair competition. In essence, the U.S. should embark on a free trade policy no matter what the circumstances...
...DEEP! DEEP!" which apparently means to dump the puck in the zone...
...Wiggins had to get out 300 yards away on Walden Avenue, a busy seven-lane highway with no sidewalk. On the morning of Dec. 14, mounds of snow lined the shoulder. Wiggins was almost across the highway when the light changed, and she was hit by a 10-ton dump truck. She died of her injuries...
Much of Wallace's humor is cute the first time around, less so the second, third, fourth and fifth. One gag that holds up is the Great Concavity. This is a chunk of New England turned over to Canada and used as a dump site by the U.S. The method of garbage disposal suggests that environmentalism has ended up in the dustbin of history: monster catapults situated near Boston hurl their toxic loads northward...
...Characters and events are propelled by a distinctive prose that frequently mixes teenage trash talk and intellectual abstraction, a Bevis-and-Egghead style that should set older folk aback and college kids abuzz." Set in a not-so-distant future where New England has been declared a toxic waste dump, the novel is a sprawling examination of annihilating diversions in an age of addictive entertainment. "'Infinite Jest' hurls its maximalist bulk, flamboyant style and unbuttoned erudition at all that might be considered fashionable posturing. Cool, it tells us in more ways than we may want to hear, is a social...