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...majority. Many Jews enjoy the Christmas season for its songs and geniality, without feeling put upon to convert or run and hide. Buddhists may dye Easter eggs. Things inevitably get tense whenever a minority seeks to hold on to some cultural tenet that goes against the American grain (e.g., Mormons and polygamy), but in less extreme cases the tension works out to a compromise. Those who make concessions to the majority culture may be scorned as Uncle Toms or assimilationists, yet accommodation does not necessarily entail a loss of integrity or self-respect. If the hordes of immigrants who contemplated...
...trade sanctions as a tool of foreign policy has almost invariably stirred up political storms. When Jimmy Carter banned most grain exports to the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, American farmers were outraged, and Ronald Reagan dropped the embargo in 1981. Next year Reagan slapped sanctions on sales of technology and equipment to the Soviets in an effort to slow construction of their natural gas pipeline to Western Europe. But American businessmen and West European governments protested so strongly that the President relented and ended the restrictions after five months...
Though he lifted Carter's grain embargo, Reagan opposes any limits on his Administration's right to impose trade sanctions. Warned Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, who voted against the measures curtailing presidential power: "The Administration would consider this to be so great an intrusion into the foreign policy area that it is highly likely to result in a veto...
...ibex, a wild mountain goat that they hunt with arrows tipped with the poison wolfsbane (rock carvings of the ibex are scattered throughout their mountains). The Minaro also raise sheep and goats, grow grapes, from which they make wine, and in spite of an arid climate, plant a little grain...
...destroyed tainted oranges, while others, such as Texas and Ohio, adopted federal guidelines. Massachusetts imposed more stringent standards than those handed down by Washington. It is estimated that this will add $100 million to the $1.1 billion that consumers in that state spend annually on baked goods and grain products. At least ten states opted, for the moment, to do nothing...