Word: edward
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...ability to fight off even a limited Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly the U.S., the 190 divisions of the People's Liberation Army may have to wait a long time to be outfitted. Says Georgetown University Military Analyst Edward N. Luttwak: "The total inventory of American ground weapons of the Army and Marines, of the active forces and reserves, would not be enough to equip the Chinese army with modern weapons...
Since the 1960s, the average annual increase in the nation's productivity has fallen from 3% to about 1%, and the blame lies partly with excessive regulation. In a landmark study, Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculated that environmental, health and safety regulations cut 1.4 points per year from U.S. productivity growth between 1967 and 1975. "There can be no doubt," says a study by the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, "that much of the productivity collapse in mining and in utilities can be attributed to social legislation that protects...
...detail, the telling anecdote. George Gissing, a 19th century novelist scarred by neglect, wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds...
...appears that things are changing in the United States. The ever-rising price of health care here, and the problems of a system without cost controls and with uneven access to care, might at last be forcing a systematic reconsideration of the whole issue of health insurance. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) has made plans for a national health insurance scheme one of his major priorities. He is urging reforms in response to what he sees as the "current non-system of health care." He believes there is a growing crisis in the area of health, requiring...
Perhaps the Third World's most accurate complaint is that the West dominates the world flow of communications, principally through the hegemony of the so-called Big Four (A.P., U.P.I., Reuters and Agence France Press). A study this year of 14 Asian newspapers made for the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University showed the Big Four accounted for 76% of Third World news in those papers. Western dominance, however, is more a matter of economics than conscious conspiracy. International cable rates discriminate against small national news agencies and other low-volume users...