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Equal Footing. Seawell contends that the only long-run way out of the bind is a combination of subsidies to cover increased fuel costs and a major restructuring of the U.S. international air system. Both are needed, he maintains, to put Pan Am and T.W.A. on an equal footing with foreign competitors, most of which are nationally owned and totally subsidized. Foreign competitors also benefit from discriminatory landing fees and route restrictions that deny U.S. airlines access to profitable routes...
...evaluation of Vita's sincerity and the objectivity of her son. If they deluded themselves, this Portrait of a Marriage is worthless. Most of the other books produced by the family are more glib and polished--but whether or not they will be remembered depends on the long-run verdict on the free, civilized form of marriage these two proper Britons pioneered. Whether they did so as a last fling of aristocratic contempt for convention or as a conscious attempt to construct a new set of rules for marriage doesn't matter much. They were brave enough to stake their...
...military war-and helped speed the withdrawal of American G.I.s from the combat zones. At the same time, he tried to assure the government of Nguyen Van Thieu that it was not being sold down the Mekong. The solution he so staunchly advocated-Vietnamization-was adopted, but its long-run efficacy will be argued for years to come...
Solicitation for the new fund may cut into the ongoing drive for women's scholarships, but "the long-run gains of merger should outweigh the temporary benefits of separate funds," Sachs said. "We do not support the status quo; we do support complete merger...
...satisfy their (primarily sexual) desires. But one day, all these violent people realized that the uninhibited pursuit of their aims would eventually result in devastating war. So, giving up their rights to plunder, they created a society both to protect themselves from their own worst impulses and, in he long-run, to help people--as individuals--to satisfy their desires more safely...