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...surest way to redress the nation's lopsided trade balance and stabilize the dollar is to slow the flow of foreign oil into the U.S., which is the chief goal of the President's energy program. The complex energy bill is now before a House-Senate conference, and last week the conferees approved one of the key Administration-supported measures. The legislators tentatively accepted the "gas guzzler tax" in just about the form the President first presented it. Under this law, which would take effect next fall, cars delivering less than 15 m.p.g. will cost an extra...
...governments that reject the basic principle of full human rights, economic opportunity and political participation for all their people, regardless of race." To arguments by the South African government that it is keeping the region free of Communism, Mondale replied: "We believe that perpetuating an unjust system is the surest incentive to increase Soviet influence and even racial...
...never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing of all. And yet, and yet the whole early form he exhibits is a new creation by virtue of the absurd...
...black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel is limiting the potential of many young blacks. Says Sociologist Corrie Hope of Morehouse College: "Unfortunately, I'm afraid that being successful in sports will remain for a long time the surest way out of the ghetto...
...discover that they have breast cancer are no longer willing to submit to disfiguring radical mastectomies, which involve the removal of the entire breast, underlying muscle and neighboring lymph nodes, even if they show no trace of cancer. Though mastectomies have been favored by U.S. experts as the surest route to survival in cases of breast cancer, some doctors are beginning to have doubts about them. Dr. Samuel Hellman of Harvard's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy points out that radical surgery-or any other treatment, including radiation-is frequently performed so late that the removal of additional tissue...