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...American manufacturers who use the devices to build computers and other products, thus making them more vulnerable to foreign competition. But to U.S. trade officials, the evidence of alleged Japanese dumping and Japan's refusal to open domestic semiconductor markets were the last straw. For one thing, the ink on the semiconductor agreement was barely dry before, in Washington's view, it was being ignored. For another, that Japanese behavior seemed to U.S. officials to be part of a familiar Japanese attitude toward trade issues: delay followed by nominal agreement followed by intransigence...
However, most lawmakers conceded the blueprint would fail to meet the $108 billion deficit target of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Democrats argued it did more to cut red ink than any other option, including the president...
...suit, Wang chided officials for using public funds for "lavish dinner parties and gifts" and for "blindly pursuing the modernization of office facilities." Thanks in part to such extravagances, Wang said, the government ran a $1.9 billion budget deficit in 1986 and can expect $2.2 billion in red ink this year. Planning Commission Minister Song Ping took up the theme: "Financial and economic discipline has grown lax everywhere." Song's solution: "Simple living, hard struggle and industry and thrift...
Before college, even papers were a physical experience--ink smearing under my dragging hand, thumb cramping, tossing paper basketballs. Now it's efficient electronic blips and whirring magnetic fields, all hanging on the precarious edge of malfunction and evaporation...
WHAT OUR "liberal education" lacks is tactile experiences. Our schooling enforces the classic mind-body split; there is no effort to integrate the two, through craft or application. All our mental activity, focused on two-dimensional ink and paper, leaves the body stranded...