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...countries that consistently runs a trade deficit with the rest of the world can hardly be described as fundamentally protectionist. A peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well. Subtract the West Germans and their world- record exports -- more than those of the Japanese, as Chancellor Helmut Kohl likes to boast -- and the E.C. would have a trade deficit of almost American dimensions...
...same certainty as death, a dunning notice will follow. But when someone overpays the IRS, the reaction is sometimes silence. Thanks to Linda Johnson, an IRS examiner in Memphis, that will soon change. She complained to her Senator, Democrat Albert Gore, that when taxpayers in certain categories failed to subtract already withheld sums in calculating what they owe the Treasury, the IRS simply pocketed their surplus payment without telling them. Urging superiors to change the rules so these people will get refunds, she argued, "It was stealing from the taxpayers...
Defense! Please: The Harvard defense gave up 272 points this year, only four shy of the school record of 276 established in 1949. Subtract Harvard's two wins (41-7 Columbia and 28-3 over Brown) and the squad allowed 262 points, an average of 32.7 points in each loss...
...times two equals four. Subtract four from Cornell's score and you get a Harvard victory...
...There are only six and one half square miles of land in Cambridge," Healy says. "Fresh Pond takes up about half a mile, and after you subtract Harvard and MIT's property that leaves about five miles of usable property for 100,000 people. With commuters it's maybe 150,000 to 200,000 on any given...