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...State Department and the President's Council on Environmental Quality, the report's sponsors, are preparing point-by-point rebuttals of Simon's article. One example: in contesting the report's projection that food prices will double by 2000. Simon displays a graph of the historical decline of wheat prices. Yet Simon offers no evidence that wheat prices are indicative of food prices in general...
Republicans regard the Carter-Mondale tactic as dirty politics. But Reagan professes no unease and refuses to make a point-by-point rebuttal to the attempt "to portray me as a combination of Ebenezer Scrooge and the mad bomber." Instead, says Reagan, he will concentrate on attacking Carter's record as President...
...responded equally firmly, pointing out that Peking had broached the presidential visit and that we could not accept any conditions. I then launched into a deliberately brusque point-by-point rebuttal of Chou's presentation. Chou stopped me after the first point, saying the duck would get cold if we did not eat first. At lunch the mood changed and Chou's geniality returned...
...Carnegie and the duPont family,Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson, a British journalist, traces the rise of the international arms market. As any good front-page journalist does, Sampson pays sharp attention to detail and leaves the analysis to more sophisticated writers. He merely tries to trace the industry point-by-point, producing an account valuable for researchers and pleasure readers...
...implicit, that the PLO has decided to recognize Israel's right to exist. This method of studying international developments is not entirely without validity, and in the case of the PLO is even necessary, since it is not particularly likely that Arafat will, in the near future, issue a point-by-point peace proposal. But code deciphering has clearly gotten out of hand. It is possible to go to Middle East seminars and encounter groups of people who consider the Israel recognition question a false issue, having long ago been settled, and raised now only as a lame...