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...succession bill through the legislature, and has pressed for a uniform $20 car tag bill (which ironically would help wealthy people with expensive cars more than anyone else). He has replaced competant state employees with his political hacks. He has used federal funds intended for social development programs to expand his personal staff. The list could...
...Administration with the sins of its predecessors, there is no escaping the legacy. That legacy is, in fact, a large part of the reason that the transatlantic debate over the dollar has turned into a dialogue of the deaf. Since early last year, Washington has been urging Bonn to expand its economy and bring its growth rate up to the U.S. level. If West Germany did that, its trade surplus would shrink and the deutsche mark would cease its inexorable rise against the dollar. When Administration officials charge that West Germany's refusal to cooperate really amounts...
Another means of increasing the amount of Faculty teaching might be to expand the number of freshman seminars, and to develop core courses with small enrollments, the report states...
Europeans are so eager for America to defend the dollar, Triffin argues, that they would willingly make the additional loans. Indeed, he believes that in return for propping the dollar, America could extract a quid pro quo, notably persuading the reluctant West Germans and Japanese to expand their economies in order to enhance world recovery. "It is in the interest of all governments to intervene to lift the dollar," Triffin says persuasively. "The problem simply cannot be left to the tender mercies of the speculators...
...share the considerations foremost in the thinking of a large corporation. A publication was obliged to consider sales and profits for purposes of economic viability, so that it might continue to publish and prosper in more than financial aims. The desire to increase profit for profit's sake, to expand, to consolidate, to dominate in a corporate fashion was basically alien to the press and its historical function of news dissemination. It is a subtle and very essential distinction between the press conceived as a vital political institution, and as one money-making enterprise among many...