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...significant investor in U.S. Treasury bonds that finance debt on our spiraling budget deficit. By holding so many U.S. assets, Japan allows Americans--at least in the short-run--to get away with not saving or investing nearly as much as we should. Our economy would grind to a halt if the Japanese subscribed to "Buy Japanese...
EDUCATION American colleges' golden age comes to a crashing halt...
...traditionally aimed at Western Europe. How come? Maybe no one remembered to tell the factories to stop. Whatever the explanation, Chancellor Kohl intends to do something about it. While he will continue providing emergency rations to the republics this winter, Germany may halt financing and other long-term aid unless they knock...
...provided half the company's $4.1 billion of sales during the first nine months last year. The Air Force has already trimmed B-2 orders from 132 planes to 75. According to TIME's sources, White House aides met quietly with Northrop officials last month to discuss a possible halt to the project, which employs 13,000 in the Los Angeles area, once work is completed on the 16 B-2s now in production...
...victims, whose one common feature is that they have been denied parity with that Blond Beast of the sentimental imagination, the heterosexual, middle-class white male. The range of victims available 10 years ago -- blacks, Chicanos, Indians, women, homosexuals -- has now expanded to include every permutation of the halt, the blind and the short, or, to put it correctly, the vertically challenged...