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...donate them to schools as tax deductions often turn to fellow users for comfort and support. As a result, hundreds of orphan-user groups have sprung up across the U.S., holding meetings in company cafeterias, community centers, classrooms and dens. Members swap tips on software, sources for ever scarcer accessories, and techniques for getting the most out of their discontinued machines...
...prospects are not good for continued quick growth. American technological advances the mainspring of our economy since well before the time of Henry Ford, are being challenged more effectively by the Japanese while cheap labor countries are taking over other markets. The problems of conserving and/or replacing ever scarcer resources has been all but ignored. Keeping the world's environment hospitable is becoming an even to her task than it has been in the past. Some groups of American are likely to be unemployed for life...
...Japanese gained even more. Since the restraints made Japanese autos scarcer, the manufacturers were able to raise the prices of their cars an average of $1,300. Japan's Big Three--Toyota, Nissan and Honda--drove away from the U.S. with trunkfuls of dollars as they con- centrated sales on , their more expensive models, where the big profits are made. One Government study showed that the import restraints cost U.S. consumers more than $1 billion annually, with about 90% of it going to Japanese manufacturers and distributors...
...know about Berkeley or Notre Dame, but I do have some idea about Harvard. In the four years I've spent here, the conversations about what is wrong with the world and how to solve it are few and far between. And if talk is scarce, action is scarcer. I've read the bound volumes of The Crimson from 1969 and thereabouts again and again, they mean more to me than most of what has happened since I arrived here. Not because students knew any more than, or had much better answers. But because they were agonizing. According...
...something Poland's long-suffering population may be reluctant to accept. The government last week added cereals and flour to its list of strictly rationed commodities, which already include meat and sugar. Meanwhile, the queues of hapless shoppers grow ever longer as bread, milk and cooking oil get scarcer. Only Polish humor, it sometimes seemed, was still in abundance. A cartoon in Solidarity's weekly newspaper showed two Poles discussing politics. "I hear Solidarity is pouring oil on the waters," says one. The other answers: "Hmmm, I wonder where they got it? " -By Thomas A. Sancton...