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...have to devalue. To prevent such unsettling measures, more and more economists-including some close consultants to Nixon-argue that currencies should be allowed to fluctuate up or down by 4% or 5%. Then governments would not be forced to take sudden measures to restrict their domestic economies and restrain their imports-moves that hurt all consumers...
...roll. This being so, one is proportionately less impressed with the Beatles as the quantity of their quality work declines. When, out of 30 songs that are clearly not setting new standards, so very few of them are worth frothing over by one's old standards, one cannot restrain a certain sense of dismay. In fact, the Beatles have provided us with such moving delights in the past that it would be unworthy of us not to be disappointed by their failure to live up to our wildest expectations...
...California regents that Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver could not deliver ten lectures for a credit course on racism. This decision clearly violated powers over curriculum that had been held by the faculty since the 1920s. To the students, the regents also appeared to be trying to restrain the expression of Black Power sentiment. The course, Social Analysis 139X, was de-signed to let Cleaver have his say; but his arguments were to be dissected in section meetings by full-time professors. The regents decided that the course could not be given for credit...
...Humphrey-Muskie Administration would never be indifferent to the fate of Czechoslovakia. We must act now to restrain future incidents by making it clear to the Soviet Union that future invasions of independent countries will have an adverse and chilling effect on ending the cold war. It is to the advantage of the Soviet Union as well as to our advantage to reduce tensions and military budgets. This, we must emphasize, can never be more than a hope if Russia insists on doctrinaire subservience--at gunpoint--from its client states...
...rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would give us no assistance and would do everything he could to restrain us from acquiring such a building...