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What the Club of Rome prescribes now is selective growth. This concept, which promises to be every bit as difficult to put into operation as no-growth, requires nations to take voluntary actions aimed at speeding the development of the poorer countries while slowing that of their industrialized brethren. The desired result would be a much more equal division of the world's riches and productive capacities, which could lead to global peace and prosperity through economic interdependence...
...continuing labor impasse was over baseball's reserve clause-the long-rankling method by which owners indenture players to one team in order to recover the cost of developing major leaguers and to protect poorer clubs from being outbid and ultimately destroyed by richer clubs. Last December an arbitrator struck down the system and ruled, on cases brought by Pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally (now retired), that the standard baseball contract's one-year renewal clause was just that and nothing more. A player, he held, would become a free agent after playing for his team without...
...important part of the larger U.S. relationship with the Third World. Venezuela is a major oil exporter. Brazil and Mexico are experiencing rapid economic growth. As a whole, the continent has supported the Third World's clamorous demand that the industrialized countries provide more aid to the poorer countries...
...terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however, was the construction bill, which climbed from a projected $1.6 million to $3.2 million. So last week Mott sadly backed out of the deal, $300,000 poorer thanks to legal and engineering costs, and began the search for new digs. His builders, meanwhile, began the search for a new buyer and put the penthouse up for sale with a price tag boosted to $3.5 million to cover their losses...
...renovations be shown before they are carried out. The council asks that the rent policy--one which threatens to price Harvard housing out of the married students' market with increases like the 35-per-cent hike of last year--be reconsidered. This high-rent policy discourages the poorer married students from coming to Harvard and is both wrong and unnecessary. The council also asks that the accounting procedures, which fix a huge housing deficit squarely on the shoulders of the tenants who did not incur the deficit, be changed...