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...disappointing. Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated proposals--mostly unimaginative, mostly bad--pulled from an economist's grab-bag that would create more problems than they solve. The solution provides little good advice on how to loosen the grip of unemployment...
...that national dream could threaten the ruling junta, which had rallied unprecedented public support in the wake of Argentina's April 2 invasion of the Falklands. But there were some signs last week that the junta may be looking ahead to a time when it might have to loosen its control on the government to stay in power. Brigadier General Basilio Lami Dozo, the commander of the air force and one of the three members of the junta, spoke vaguely of the need for the "participation by all sectors" in the government in the future. The junta, however...
Vellucci's repeated wobbling on the Linnaean and Washington case shows just how his tightrope stance hurts both tenants and would-be condo owners cross the city. By first signalling that he would make exemptions to the condo codes, then refusing to amend them, and then moving again to loosen the regulations. Vellucci generates fear on the one hand in tenants who could lose their apartments to condo conversion and raises false hopes on the other in condo investors...
...will not buckle to the forces of the Great Conspiracy. We will not countenance those who would disagree with our Vision. We will not fail to tame Interest Rates and their perpetrators. We will not fail to loosen the fetters of the repressed crude-oil Priviligentsia. We will not fail to meet the test...
American businessmen had hoped that Reagan would loosen trade restrictions rather than tighten them. Says an executive at a major oil company: "We had been counting on this Administration to give those of us interested in East-West trade some clear principles on which we could build long-range relations with the East. Unfortunately, imposition of these sanctions makes it difficult for us to know precisely whether we should or shouldn't plan on doing business with the East. It seems just as bad now as it did under Carter from our point of view...