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...Rumsfeld, then Ambassador to NATO, beckoned Goldwin to Brussels to lend a hand. There the professor contributed to drafting the Ottawa Declaration, which reaffirmed the Atlantic Alliance. When Rumsfeld joined Ford's White House as chief of staff, he persuaded Goldwin to turn down a faculty job at the University of Pennsylvania and follow...
Whether B.U. will have recovered mentally from its upset at Colgate remains to be seen, but Durocher feels the loss may lend impetus to the Terriers' retrieval of the coveted title...
...publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain substance by getting undressed as often as possible. Jay Cocks
...trade accord with the U.S. invalid, the Soviets rejected by extension the Trade Reform Act signed by President Ford early this year. Thus the U.S.S.R. spurned lower U.S. tariff rates and $300 million in Export-Import Bank credits, while reneging on their agreement to repay $722 million in wartime Lend-Lease debts...
...Demand. But once bitten by the growth bug, many banks threw off the old restraints. They now compete vigorously for loan customers and meet the pumped-up demands for loans with money they themselves borrow-from each other, the public and the largely unregulated Eurodollar market. Such go-go lending policies, Mayer believes, bloated business and consumer demand and contributed in no small way to the present inflation rate. Banks also damage the economy, says the author, by going to capital markets to borrow a large proportion of the money they lend. The practice weakens the Federal Reserve Board...