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...shuttered campaign ignore its financial problems. It still owes $1.2 million from the 1984 presidential race. (Although nearly $2 million had been raised for the 1988 race, only a small surplus is expected to remain after bills are paid.) Hart's organization has asked the Federal Election Commission for permission to pay down the old debt with an estimated $1.1 million in federal matching funds that Hart will request for the 1988 effort. But he may no longer qualify for this money: the agency is supposed to allot matching funds only to candidates actively seeking the presidency...
...Reagan has to deal with a Congress that has become increasingly protectionist. As America's trade deficit has steadily grown, political leaders have become more and more vocal in their demands for a halt in Japanese imports. Tokyo last week released new figures showing that Japan's worldwide trade surplus ballooned to an astonishing $101.4 billion in the twelve-month period that ended in March. Some $52 billion of that bulge came from trade with...
...international aircraft rivalry has become a major source of contention between U.S. and European trade representatives. Washington is naturally alarmed that the American aerospace industry, which generated a surplus of $12 billion in its overseas trade last year, could be damaged by unfair subsidies to a foreign competitor. The Administration is negotiating with the Europeans in an effort to persuade them to them to curb the Airbus subsidies. Said U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Smith last week: "We want to defuse the tension...
...surplus that will be left of these foods will be sent to starving children in Africa. This will have the extra benefit of making it impossible for your mother to tell you that there are children in Africa wishing fot the chance to eat your brussel sprouts...
...enterprise has been an overnight hit. The makers of the jewelry receive two rubles ($3), and the sellers get 1.50 rubles ($2.25) for each item that sells for five rubles ($7.50). That leaves 1.50 rubles for Sasha as the "organizer." (Marx called Sasha's profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from...