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While Americans may sneer at the far more expensive addiction of Europe's farmers to subsidies and trade barriers, some of Uncle Sam's industries cannot live without a stiff fix from Washington. U.S. shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes...
...studied this thing closely and realized that we could fix the problem by rearranging fares. We've simplified things. We will make the same amount of money on average per passenger, but we think we will attract more passengers...
...interview yesterday, Rudenstine said he is acting to fix the problem. "We are definitely doing things," he said. "There have been daily meetings, more or less, and there will continue to be meetings...
...simple as this: if you fix the schools, you will fix the kids," says Howe...
...Future was erased to give the impression that Fox was zipping around in midair. For Memoirs of an Invisible Man, computers removed Chevy Chase from his clothes, then filled in the displaced background. "If there's a problem on the set," says Williams, "no problem. We can fix...