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American businessmen have long been enraged and frustrated by what they consider a one-sided Japanese attitude on trade. While exporting furiously, the Japanese have put imported products through a thicket of protective tariffs and a maze of nontariff barriers ranging from quotas to stringent labeling requirements. One result: a GE refrigerator sells for $2,075 in Tokyo, compared with $1,289 in New York City. Little wonder, then, that many U.S. companies saw no point in even trying to crack the Japanese market...
...SHEER NUMBER OF LAWS that govern the United States has gotten out of control during this century. Most legislators and the vast majority of ordinary citizens are baffled by the stupendous maze of red tape, obscure statutes and dust-ridden amendments that comprise the federal system of laws and determine the way the nation runs. A prime example is the United States Criminal Code, a confusing profusion of laws that determine what is illegal in the eyes of the federal government and how many years a crime can land you in the slammer. Americans on all sides of the political...
...estimated cost to the taxpayers of $100,000. To illustrate the process, Reorganizer Wellford has a 21-ft.-long chart in his office illustrating one Environmental Protection Agency official's 21-month effort to fire a $9,600-a-year stenographer. Various lines snaking through a maze of boxes and triangles denote all the required memos, warnings, suspensions and conferences. The official devoted so much time and effort to the firing that he began getting bad ratings on his own work...
Author Truscott, a disaffected former West Pointer who has written mainly in Manhattan's Village Voice, never flatly accuses Charles Allen of direct Mafia connections, but the implications are strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided...
Intellectual America shuns the shallowness of disco and instead unleashes its soul somewhere in the space maze of blips and unpredictable tones of electronic jazz...