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...would work out to around $100 billion of red ink a year. The President's hope is that spending cuts and economic recovery will make the increase unnecessary. But, says one high official, the stand-by proposal "has the double advantage of not raising taxes now that would hinder economic recovery and showing the capital markets that something will be done about the deficit in the long...
...attempt to discourage recruiting violations by over-zealous alumni boosters, the NCAA delegates outlawed personal off-campus recruiting by people not on a university's athletic staff. While the measure may cut down on the number of big-time college football recruits driving free Corvettes, it will hinder schools such as Harvard, which have relatively small recruiting budgets and rely on alumni to push promising quarterbacks toward Cambridge rather than Stanford or Ann Anchor. Unlike national football and basketball powers, smaller scale Ivy League teams traditionally have not turned to illegal recruiting practices. The new rule unfairly discriminates against schools...
...should encourage innovation in its industries. The dollar is overvalued, which hurts the American cause. The U.S. strategy should be to bring down foreign barriers that unfairly hinder exports. It is a delicate game. The threat of new protectionist measures by the U.S. can sometimes be used to induce other nations to drop their barriers, which are often insufferably high. Yet the enactment of those measures could be ruinous...
...newness of the events did not hinder their performance though, as Regan and Jelley took first and third respectively in the 1500. Jones took second in a tough 500 race, and O'Leary and Mullane finished third in their events...
...General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat subsidiary. The move prompted criticism later the same month from retiring Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who told a Congressional panel that investigated false and inflated claims by contractors were nothing unusual: "Today, defense contractors can do anything they want with nothing to hinder them...