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Despite repeated promises by the Japanese to dismantle their myriad nontariff barriers and allow more foreign goods into their potentially rich market, Japan's trade surplus continues to pile up. Last year it rose to $24.6 billion, from $17.3 billion in 1977. Imports of Toyotas, Sony TVs, Nikon cameras and other Japanese goods to the U.S. outpaced American exports to Japan by $13 billion, accounting for fully a third of the American trade deficit...
THERE ARE A number of reasons why ARCO's status as a political organization should stop the Kennedy School from using its name. The promotion of the name suggests a political endorsement. The academic community should be a haven for myriad viewpoints; Harvard should refuse to give its institutional backing to any single...
...time, to a society-wide level. No longer tied to the life of a single man, Levenson dispensed with conventions of narrative history, choosing instead to write three books as a web, jumping centuries and cultures to find the comparisons that would treat the same theme from a myriad of settings. From treating crises of intellectuals in an intellectual system, in the second volume Levenson moved to the crises of intellectuals within institutions--the monarchy and the bureaucracy...
Motorists are perplexed by the price differences that they notice from region to region, city to city and even block to block. The reasons for the discrepancies are complex and varied. Taxes can make a big difference. In Chicago myriad federal, state, county and sales taxes add up to about 17? per gal. (the federal tax alone is 4?). But in Houston levies total only 9?, and lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas...
...stands influence our whole society. Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion in the Bakke case, for instance, hinged on Harvard's friend-of-the-court brief. The Cambridge-Washington shuttle, institutionalized during President Kennedy's administration, shapes public policy to aid in education, tax rules on charitable giving, and myriad other areas...