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...political agenda is certainly reasonable, but there is another issue beyond the relative merits of this or that type of weapons freeze. The psychiatrists may be onto a social and scientific problem of some importance, but the conclusions they seek to make far outstrip the research thus far. Further, their insights into the psychological impact of the arms race are being somewhat obscured by the researchers' politics and their tendency to make ironclad moral judgments about the issue...
...Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...
...offering help for the disadvantaged and services for everyone. "In the postwar era," observes Harvard Political Economist Robert Reich, "it was possible to dispense [Government largesse] and pump [the economy] at the same time." But in the '70s and '80s, the demand for Government goodies began to outstrip the growth of the economy. Lyndon Johnson, and by extension the Democratic Party, was wrong: the U.S. was not "an endless cornucopia...
...million for the final quarter of 1983, making it the third biggest U.S. daily. The paper's first-quarter figures for 1984, not yet audited, show a jump to nearly 1.3 million, close to the New York Daily News (circ. 1.4 million) and on schedule with plans to outstrip the Wall Street Journal (circ. 2 million) by 1987. The audit silenced speculation that Gannett had padded its totals with giveaways. Says Publisher Cathleen Black: "This is an important step. It gives us much more credibility...
Without denying the obvious truth that it human numbers grew to the point that they outstrip the earth's capacity for found produce son, song, people will state. I am simply pointing out that we have not yet got to that point and some people are starving already...