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...bilateral, linguistic "dialogue" has been markedly one-sided. French who wish to communicate with Americans must still nearly always do so in English. Parochialism keeps Americans well insulated; most do not possess even a working knowledge of another language, and few have felt any compunction to learn even the metric system, despite its use by nearly every other nation on the ever-shrinking planet...
With eight lanes and a 400 meter oval, the track will give Harvard an NCAA regulation loop for the first time since the metric system became the international track standard...
...theory" that only forward movement can prevent collapse, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock insisted that new reductions in trade barriers were essential, and pushed aggressively for major reductions in the European Community's agricultural export subsidies. Brock even threatened to start a trade war by dumping 200,000 metric tons of butter on the world market in an effort to undercut European prices. Angry Western European ministers called for scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give...
Last week American officials confirmed in talks with the Soviets in Vienna that the U.S. stands ready to sell them a whopping 23 million metric tons of grain in the current fiscal year. Moscow bought 13.7 million tons during fiscal...
...argument will keep heating up until the voters actually stream into the polling booths. Making full use of a President's prerogatives, Reagan last week offered the Soviet Union a deal under which the U.S. would ship to the U.S.S.R. up to 23 million metric tons of grain in the year starting Oct. 1 vs. 6 million to 8 million tons that the Soviets are now committed to buy. The move was calculated to please farmers who have been badly hurt by the recession. He also signed a $3.8 billion job-training bill. Whether such efforts can offset...