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...lessen the deficit, most Americans would prefer to see U.S. production and export increase rather than Japanese imports restricted...
Last year the University began internal auditing to lessen the effect of reduced reimbursement, Leahy said. He said the self-auditing reveals certain costs that the University hasn't been reporting and should compensate for the loss...
...almost certain to contain some relief for Americans abroad. The Senate Finance Committee has approved an increase in the salary tax exemption to $50,000 for workers in developing countries or employees of largely export-oriented firms. The Administration has proposed a more modest measure that would lessen the tax load for Americans in hardship posts like the Middle East, but not for those, for example, in Western Europe, Canada and South Africa. Insiders believe that the Senate's version is more likely to be passed. One stumbling block in the Carter proposal is how to define a hardship...
...efforts to lessen the impact of the Afghanistan invasion on Soviet citizens, the Kremlin leadership is beginning to discover that the war has caused considerable disquiet and difficulties on the home front. Although there are no credible casualty figures, Dissident Andrei Sakharov has spoken of "thousands" of Soviet deaths; relatives and friends of soldiers have become uncomfortably aware that the number of casualties is high. According to Moscow-based European diplomats, Soviet authorities have stopped burying soldiers with full military honors in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the deaths. Many of the seriously wounded have been flown...
...FIELD of economic policy, Reagan would loose the shackles of the oil companies in an effort to lessen dependence on foreign oil. While this might prove a partially effective short-term solution, it does not bode well for the U.S. 20 years from now, when depleted supplies--no matter how vigorous the exploration--will send shock waves through an economy even more deeply mired in crude. His dismissal of conservation as secondary shows that Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain...