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...energy binge has gone on without significant letup. Token fuel-saving gestures have been widespread, and it may be that most Americans have actually turned back the thermostat a notch now and then or switched off a needless light. Still, through last summer America had managed to use and import more fuel by far than ever before...
...oldest and richest University in the nation, Harvard packs tremendous institutional clout in academic, government and corporate circles. The symbolic, as well as direct economic import, of an activist stand by Harvard in favor of the human rights of South Africa's black majority cannot be underestimated. The students, alumni, faculty and other employees of the University must help push Harvard toward the socially responsible position on this issue...
...than $10 billion. Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year-old system of export subsidies and import duties was anathema to Begin, who during his election campaign had promised less government interference in the economy. Instead, said Begin's top aide, Yehiel Kadishai, "we are going from a welfare state to a state where workers will fare well...
This is television's year of the family. CBS has the Fitzpatricks, NBC has Mulligan's Stew, and ABC has Eight Is Enough. By some grand irony, however, PBS, the poor stepsister network, has the two most ambitious family sagas: I, Claudius, yet another impressive import from the BBC, and The Best of Families, a lavish $6 million drama of New York City in the last two decades of the 19th century. Running simultaneously, the two series offer a lesson in contrasts, showing just how good...
...keeping sales up. If necessary, these companies can sell below production costs and make up the losses with Government subsidies. Dumping is far from the only gripe of U.S. businessmen. They often grouse that Japan pours out its goods to world markets but bars much foreign merchandise through difficult import procedures and other technical barriers to trade. In Europe many countries remit the value-added tax, a form of sales tax, on goods that are exported?which can cut the prices of steel sold outside Europe by as much as 30%?while adding a VAT to imported merchandise...