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According to the NAS study, the government's old-fashioned accounting methods failed to keep tabs on such sophisticated multinational activity as "intracompany" sales, exports to a corporation's own foreign affiliates. These exports, which account for more than a quarter of all U.S. trade activity, simply fell through the cracks. On the other side of the ledger, however, the government's accountants were diligent indeed in totting up tariff-producing imports. "In terms of international competitiveness," says economist Robert Baldwin, chairman of the panel, the study suggests that "we are not doing as badly as the trade figures indicate...
This division of academic life into warring special interest groups would only be enhanced by morality-play stereotyping of TDC as the white knight (oops, knight of color) that would do battle against the monolithic evil empire of the NAS...
Stephen H. Balch, president and executive director of NAS, called the group's formation "a defensive reaction...
Besides attacking the NAS, the group's prospectus criticized Dinesh D'Souza, author of Illiberal Education and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Lynn V. Cheney, accusing them of "blatant hypocrisy" and intolerance...
...rather strange that people who have been so powerful in academic life feel the need to form such an organization," said Balch. But Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom, a member of NAS and a prominent critic of political correctness, said that he welcomed the opportunity for increased debate...