Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Botswana has never tried to conceal its heavy dependence on its trade links with Pretoria. "There is still only one way in and one way out," says a member of the government. And South Africa never lets Botswana forget this basic fact. Indeed, this is one reason Khama's government is so deeply committed to the cause of peace in the region. Once the fighting stops in Rhodesia, Botswana can begin to build new trade routes to Zambia, Namibia and even the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, thereby reducing its dependence on South Africa for access to the world...
...real and immediate reason why supplies are tight is that overall output by the 13-nation OPEC cartel, which produces nearly half the world's oil, has been cut by between 7% and 10% since December, when shipments from Iran first stopped. Now that Iran is back to exporting, at two-thirds normal capacity, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait and other oil states are reducing their own deliveries to keep the market tight...
...been intensifying in both the U.S. and Europe. Congressional leaders have warned that unless Japan moves more quickly to cut its surplus, Congress will impose a 15% tariff surcharge on Japanese goods, and take other retaliatory steps. Says Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas: "I can see no good reason for the U.S. to commit economic harakiri on the altar of a bogus free-trade relationship...
...reason for America's lag in productivity and gap in balance of payments is that the U.S. has lost much of its lead in innovation. Not in a long time have Yankee tinkerers produced an invention to rival nylon or the transistor. U.S. scientists and engineers have brought forth some fascinating new products, including talking toys and maybe the Moodymobile, but the ingenious Europeans and Asians are being granted an ever increasing share of the patents...
...Though unknown to the general public, he was a successful and esteemed member of the U.S. medical Establishment; he had taught at the right places and run some of them as well. The rest of his life was his to live out in dignified, influential isolation. There was no reason to believe that any work bearing Thomas' name would ever appear on paperback racks in airports or drugstores. But then, as The Medusa and the Snail indicates, there is no reason for expecting many things to happen until they do; only then can the moving forces behind events leap...