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...plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 (see box). Just enough Senators and Representatives will change their minds on a revote to sustain the veto. Then will follow a confused struggle between legislators fearful of a trade war yet determined to force Reagan to do more to promote exports and curtail imports, and a President wary of drastic moves yet aware that he has to do something to start trimming the trade deficit...
...tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements in the character of the tastefully crazed academic...
...difficult to distinguish where the bad lines end and the bad acting begins. For example, even with his best effort, O'Toole could not sustain the overly-profound weight of an endless series of cliches on life, the universe, and everything that he is commanded to deliver. On the other hand, Mariel Hemingway's pathetic Madonna Wanna-Be portrayal of O'Toole's would-be fiancee is surely worse than what any amount of bad dialogue could explain away. And for lingering, breathless male fans of Star 80, take a deeeeeep breath: Hemingway isn't even looking good...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...