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...that weapon should be used sparingly. Protectionism encourages U.S. companies to remain inefficient and drives up prices to consumers. The flap about fair trade obscures an inescapable fact: the fault for our industrial woes lies not with our trading partners but in ourselves. If every trade barrier on earth magically disappeared, the U.S. deficit would probably decline no more than 20%. The primary responsibility for the trade deficit rests both with a profligate Government whose tax and spending policies have encouraged overconsumption and with much of U.S. industry, which grew fat and complacent during its halcyon days in the 1950s...
...sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves? We're too old to move again." She does not know if she can trust her neighbors not to panic and move out. "It's all white people's fault," she said. "Blacks have a right to live where they want...
...gives two cheers for Western civilization, "the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us." It may not be what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but neither did they envision that their liberal political philosophy would produce no-fault auto insurance and gifted wise guys like O'Rourke...
...Welliver is flat. More than flat, he is almost completely off pitch. The song -- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen -- calls for an F, but the note he is bellowing this scorching July morning in San Antonio is closer to a B flat. The problem is partly the fault of a ruddy young man in Big Smith overalls who has sounded the wrong note on a pitch pipe, but the small group of onlookers doesn't know that. They poke one another and guffaw...
...fact that there is a trash problem beleaguering the Yard, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, comes as news to us. And if there is a mess, are the student publications at fault? Although most hallways are adorned every Thursday and Friday with unread and unwished-for Independents, it is hard to believe that newspapers and periodicals are truly responsible...