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The seemingly intractable trade deficit is reviving pleas for protectionism. This week the House of Representatives will reconsider ) legislation to assist the ailing textile industry by drastically reducing imports. President Reagan has vetoed this bill, but the House will now vote on a proposal to override that veto. Supporting textile...
A few words trickle out of one's memory from the television pleas for funds to refurbish this statue. In them, Lady Liberty spoke, mourning her tarnished condition like an aging prima donna. If she could not be repolished, she threatened, "I shall become a symbol of shame."
But by week's end Philadelphians no longer had to go out of town to dispose of their trash. Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his...
First, there was the CUE Guide controversy in the fall, when an administrator in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences thought it would be better if students weren't informed of their peers' opinions of certain professors. So he censored the write-ups of several courses, omitting student criticism of...
Reagan may have been sending a signal that the White House intends to take a tough line in new trade negotiations with the Canadians, which got under way last week. The tariff also demonstrated that the White House, like Congress, can be moved by pleas for protectionism.