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...committee has offered no alternatives to relocating Gov Docs to Littauer, but such a move would be a serious handicap to undergraduates. Gov Docs’ current location in Lamont is convenient to undergraduates without hindering the access of the public, who are legally required to be able to see the collections. A move to Littauer Library, far from the Widener-Pusey-Lamont complex that holds most resources used by undergraduates, not only offers no substantive advantages but would also make Gov Docs available for far fewer and less convenient hours during the day?...
...That’s a real hardship and a real handicap,” he says...
...claims it can't negotiate those duties in the ftaa. The reason: Brazil's lower wages and looser environmental standards, for example, make it over 60? cheaper for Brazilians to harvest a kilo of oranges, thus putting U.S. growers at a competitive disadvantage. Experts like Connolly say that handicap isn't as severe as the U.S. complains. Cases like the juice tariff - as well as the tariffs pampering U.S. industries like steel, ruled illegal last week by the World Trade Organization - make the developed nations' frequent lectures on open markets sound insincere at best. But Brazil may be guilty...
...display such solidarity in Cancun, the breakdown of the trade talks means that northern subsidies will not disappear anytime soon. Worse, the rich nations will likely turn their energies to negotiating bilateral and regional trade agreements in order to circumvent the WTO altogether. These smaller scale trade deals would handicap the developing countries, picking apart the united front which they posed in Cancun. To many advocates of developing nations, the WTO suddenly doesn’t look quite...
Slattery has dyslexia, a reading disorder that persists despite good schooling and normal or even above-average intelligence. It's a handicap that affects up to 1 in 5 schoolchildren. Yet the exact nature of the problem has eluded doctors, teachers, parents and dyslexics themselves since it was first described more than a century ago. Indeed, it is so hard for skilled readers to imagine what it's like not to be able to effortlessly absorb the printed word that they often suspect the real problem is laziness or obstinacy or a proud parent's inability to recognize that...