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...Eastern). In addition, tutors are given the freedom to substitute either an area of their own choosing for one of the present four (pre-1700 European. Modern European, American, and Historiography) or a topic of their own choosing in one of the four areas. This option is designed to permit those with expertise and interest in teaching a non-western topic the right to do so and to encourage all tutors to be more independent in the selection of their topics...
Baxter says that he intends to rewrite the antitrust division's 13-year-old guidelines on mergers in a way to permit more corporate couplings. He says he does not believe in putting more "weight in the saddlebags of the faster runners." In other areas, the Reaganauts seem to be giving the green light to practices that have previously been regarded as anticompetitive, or nearly so. One of the most important is that the U.S. may allow American companies to form joint ventures for doing international business. That would make U.S. firms more competitive with foreign enterprises, which have...
...could save many of the 400 Americans murdered each week if we allowed police to spot-check people on the streets for illegal weapons. Experienced officers could then clear their beats of armed thugs in short order. Perhaps the Fourth Amendment will have to be changed to permit such searches...
...Third World. For the poorest countries, foreign aid--dispensed by both the United States and international bodies such as the World Bank--is invaluable. For newly industrializing countries such as Brazil, South Korea and Mexico, a reduction of protectionism in the developed world is necessary in order to permit rapid economic growth and the satisfaction of rising expectations...
News executives at rival networks questioned just how fitting it was. ''We would not permit such an arrangement here," said NBC News President William Small, "because of the potential conflict of interest on stories that correspondents covered. Walter is going to do a science series [Universe, a half-hour newsmagazine that will air 13 episodes this summer] that could get into the area of energy, and that affects the airline industry." Concurred ABC's senior vice president of news, Rich ard Wald: "No active working correspondent at ABC could become the member of a board...