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...American auto industry has begun. Moreover, Detroit's experience provides many lessons for other sectors of U.S. business. The most obvious is the need to avoid such industrial decline. A generation of neglect has sapped Detroit's competitive strength, and further delay would have put it in graver peril. Only the huge capital investment now being made has given American automakers the chance to survive...
...apparent to all that the parliament was coming into being at a time when Iran could hardly have faced graver problems: a dangerously deteriorating economy, mounting internal strife, and growing international isolation. In his own address, Banisadr emphasized Iran's dire economic predicament. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 50%. Unemployment has risen to a third of the work force. Exports of oil, which once totalled 6 million bbl. daily under the Shah, have slowed to 700,000. Moreover, half of Iran's foreign exchange reserve of $15 billion is frozen in U.S. banks at home...
...Still, a graver defect alienates us from the story at times. Hazzard suffers a cultural manneredness that sometimes overwhelms the pleasure we take in the novel's intelligent style. Occasionally we detect pretentiousness, a conscious literacy, an assumed intellectual and artistic sophistication. Allusions to literature, paintings, sculptures, mythology, and the great, exotic places of the world abound, and while we enjoy this armchair journey, Hazzard cannot always assimilate it into the flow; it becomes unfortunate, irksome baggage. She establishes Caro Bell, the Australian heroine, as a charming and sensitive woman, but Caro's literary cultivation seems incongruously elevated from what...
...there are cases where judges must shoulder a still graver burden, for we must preserve the core of our heritage embodied in the Constitution. Our challenge is to pour into these ancient formulations the experience of each generation, to strike anew a balance between the necessities of state and the rights of the individual, between the security of the status quo and the aspirations of our minorities. Our tools are limited to reasoned elaboration, the collective wisdom of our founding fathers and the voice of an aroused conscience. We must strain our hearts and minds to apply the most enlightened...
...educates to offer them many different political viewpoints in each discipline. The Economics Department already has many professors well-qualified to teach Harberger's efficiency-first brand of economics. The "academic freedom" which Bok invokes as an excuse for ignoring this problem looks facetious next to the much graver lack of academic freedom encountered by students who want to study any type of economics but the mainstream...