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...practical uses. Since technology is now science based, we scientists cannot disclaim responsibility for technological innovations and for their influence on modes and qualities of life Together with those especially knowledgeable in problems of society we must now try to separate the good from the bad potentialities and then lend our weight to the good side...
Although Administration officials tried to downplay the significance of the trip, a number of agreements were announced. Most important, the U.S. will lend Brazil $1.23 billion, at 8% annual interest for three months, to tide over the debt-burdened (nearly $90 billion in foreign lOUs) country until a $4.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan comes through next year...
Betancur certainly sounded nonaligned. Even his public remarks at lunch with Reagan, after their 45-minute private talk, were harsh. He said that Colombian products are denied full access to the U.S. market by tariffs, that the U.S. should prod the IMF to lend more money more easily to countries like his, and that industrialized powers generally renege on their vague, rosy promises to help developing countries. Alluding to the unaccommodating U.S. attitude toward Marxist Nicaragua, Betancur said that hemispheric interests are ill served "either by pressure or isolation." Reagan did not reply in kind. His speech, muted and conciliatory...
...think I played particularly well," Boyum said. "But a lot of the time you lend to be shaky in your first match...
...year-long enterprise with a three-week selling season would seem to lend itself to fearsome competition. But area growers claim that there are always plenty of customers to go around, although Pam Hansen points to the property of a neighbor, saying. "The man across the street this spring planted 25,000 seedlings. That's our competition in years to come...