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...other hand, it is not difficult to envision a stalemated U.S. where deficits persist, interest rates remain high, the dollar remains high and manufacturing investment low. Productivity gains will remain low, imports will remain high, growth will remain low, unemployment will range from to 10 percent, and unemployment will be a battleground where competing interests fight for a bigger share of a pie which grows very slowly, and in so doing they will prevent enactment of some of the policy changes needed to get the pie (GNP) growing again...
...strong growth and spending cuts would take care of the budget gap, but Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, publicly maintained that a tax hike was needed. Said Feldstein, who resigned in July to return to teaching at Harvard: "The longer the deficits are allowed to persist, the greater are the risks to our economy...
...danger that the partially attentive may again mistake him for what he is not: an empty pictorialist. Or, because his characters wear costumes and move against an authentic historical background, in classically composed scenes that do not obviously assert his personality or linger over his cleverness, some people may persist in seeing him as an old-fashioned moviemaker...
TERRORISM will always exist as an appealing option to the fanatical, but it need not persist as a forum for the politically frustrated. Nor need it continue to single out American victims as readily as in the past. The United States government must ensure that its economic and political preponderance globally is tempered with a more thoughtful and respectful consideration of world peoples. If U.S. corporations are unwilling to exercise restraint on their own, our government must seek to enforce fair labor and safety practices abroad. If foreign governments receiving U.S. aid operate repressive regimes, this country must speak...
...development; Ethiopia is, in many respects, too weakened to respond to "pressures" of that grisly nature. Nor does the solution lie in Indira Gandhi-like methods of population control. Unless the need for large families to increase agricultural production is alleviated by more efficient methods, the root cause will persist...