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While the first batch of Kennedy Round tariff reductions was going into effect last week, a wide assortment of other trade barriers loomed as high as ever. These are nontariff gimmicks designed to impede the inflow of foreign goods. Wine-producing France, for example, puts a crimp on bourbon and Scotch imports by prohibiting all whisky advertising. In Italy, foreign automakers find it difficult to buy prime time on the state-owned television. Switzerland not only restricts imports of milk products but gives special help-including price supports and low-cost feed-to Swiss dairymen whose cows graze in remote...
President Johnson's moves to correct the U.S.'s balance of payments deficit were painful to some, controversial to many, and likely to damage the nation's own interests if left in effect too long. Yet the objective was beyond cavil: to prevent recent attacks on the dollar and the speculative rush for gold from growing into an international financial crisis that could undermine prosperity around the world...
Whatever its effect on the two companies, the breakup most certainly unburdened Washington's U.S. Court of Appeals, which was thus spared from having to reach a decision on the controversial merger-after deliberating on it for more than five months...
Against this assumption, Adler poses a contemporary version of the "Cartesian challenge." Show me an animal or a machine that can speak in sentences, said Descartes, in effect, and I will believe that man is not unique in his possession of an immaterial power that gives him reason. Even idiots can arrange words to make known their thoughts, Descartes explained, but "no animal can do the same." To him that was satisfactory proof that "the brutes" have no reason at all. Adler demands more before he will abandon man's uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give...
...discussed the effect of increased parietals on pressure to have girls eating in the dining halls. This is quite an important area to the college," Pappen-heimer continued. He indicated that in his own House there is often a shortage of seats even when girls are not allowed...