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Far more important than whether West Germany and Japan expand their economies is whether the U.S. can manage to curtail its wanton consumption of imported oil. As President Carter grimly noted last spring in his energy address to the nation, if present trends continue, the country's oil deficit...
In fact many of the alienated youths who join radical underground groups in Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg...
Those assertions must be taken with a large grain of salt. It is difficult to envision businessmen embracing a tax policy that provides for full taxation of capital gains. There are real and serious differences that should be argued out, rather than papered over by facile talk of "better communication...
MOST OF THE TIME, Fonda portrays the writer just as one might envision the temperamental chain smoker. Occasionally, however, Hellman's stubborn scowls become Fonda's cute pouts and Robards's subtle understatements make Fonda seem even shriller. Fonda has her moments of glory, though, particularly as she confronts Broadway...
No matter how good or bad a worker may be, at a certain age he goes, and that's the end of it. But now even the most paternalistic company may feel compelled to rate much more sternly the performance of older employees. Such performance evaluations are subjective at best...