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Charges of red tape in Washington are common enough, but rarely are they made by high Government officers. In a new report, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe reveals some shocking statistics about the high costs that red tape tack on to the nation's imports and exports. Says Volpe: "The cost of documentation in U.S. international trade has reached nearly $6.5 billion annually, or 7.5% of the value of U.S. export and import shipments." The documents are demanded mostly by the Government, but also by banks, insurance companies and shipping firms. Items...
...suspect, who'll deery Roth--as they've already decried De Antonio--for the simplicity of his attack. To do so is to miss his point. Millhouse and Our Gang are simple, direct attacks because the object of their fury himself chooses to take so simple-minded a tack in his relationship with the American people. In burlesqueing such simplicity. Roth and De Antonio can only hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic beneath the book--refusing...
When Nat Turners unleash their rage or when cons go over the wall, the system that failed to hold them invariably comes under attack. Although much of the attacks call for the further application of existing mechanisms of control, some advocate employing the opposite tack or even the abolition of the system. In any case, such criticisms threaten the system as it stands, and in so doing threaten the standing of the men who operate and directly profit from the system...
...that the life of the diving bell and the treadmill was not what he wanted for himself, but he did not know how best to escape it. He knew that if he were to escape or perhaps merely survive, he would have to react, but he knew neither what tack to take nor what supplies he had to draw upon. So, as much out of a lack of alternatives as anything else, George Jackson went with his father west to America's Promised Land...
...They have even used the paradox in an effort to challenge all of relativity; for Einstein himself admitted that if only one part of his theory proved wrong, its whole finely structured mathematical edifice would crumble. In the September issue of Physics Today, Physicist Mendel Sachs takes a different tack. He contends that the Einstein theory and equations are correct, but that Einstein misinterpreted the equations in stating the clock paradox. A relativity theorist himself at the State University of New York in Buffalo, Sachs argues that the equations suggest that the difference between a clock aboard a spacecraft...