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...employees clinging to, but increasingly sliding down the slippery slope of the Laffer curve. As the relentless logic of supply-side economics becomes clearer--that the rich will get richer while the poor grow pooer--strikes will increasingly come to be seen as a necessary tactic. And the "New Beginning" so carefully constructed by the forces of conservatism will crumble, buckling under the weight of the expectations it raised...
...everyone is convinced that this tactic will bring down Khomeini or, if it does, that Rajavi will be the beneficiary. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, an Iran watcher at the University of Virginia, suggests that "Khomeini still has a tenacious hold on the people, especially the lower classes." French experts, who were among the first to predict the Shah's demise, contend that the Mujahedin may have suffered more at the Khomeini government's hands than they are willing to admit. Some Western intelligence sources doubt that the Mujahedin, though superbly organized, have as many followers as they claim. "They...
...agreement with Australia for up to 3.9 million tons will also help make up the deficit. Clearly, Washington's tactic of using food as a weapon to make Moscow behave in international relations has misfired. Indeed, the U.S. is now scrambling for a share of the Soviets' grain business. Says Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics J. Dawson Ahalt of the DOA: "It's an interesting turnaround...
...kills off Mediterranean fruit flies while causing no apparent harm to humans. Nonetheless, California's Governor, who plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain of chemicals on residential areas. Instead, he opted for a slower and more laborious tactic: spraying individual trees from the ground, stripping them of fruit and releasing numbers of sterile male fruit flies to divert females from fertile males and thus keep them from producing offspring...
...That tactic was used two months ago by Canada's Dome Petroleum to acquire a 52.9% interest in Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, a Canadian firm controlled by Conoco. Stripped of its Canadian holdings, Conoco became a takeover target and wound up being acquired by Du Pont...