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Many economists believe that Carter's proposals are more than adequate to stabilize farm prices without driving them so high that U.S. goods are forced out of foreign markets. High price supports, critics contend, fuel inflation, tempt farmers to grow more than they can sell and enable less efficient growers to pursue wasteful ways. So far, legislators do not agree-and unless they back down, the stage is being set for an open confrontation between Carter and a Congress controlled by his own party...
...misses the intensity of some of Feld's longer works, it also lacks their some times disturbing undertones. A circus of bravura set pieces, it may well join Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and similar pas de deux as staples of gala pro grams. Variations is bound to tempt other virtuoso pairs. There are two reasons, however, why it may not look quite the same: Christine Sarry and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
Then the whole enterprise unravels, mostly because of an ill-considered at tempt to make a statement about contemporary issues. Lancaster is a cashiered Air Force general, unhinged by his experiences as a P.O.W. in Viet...
...when it comes right down to it, we have no choice: we must beg, cajole, tempt, propitiate, and otherwise urge out professors to pause for a moment, to descend from the high loft of prestige, and to show a little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply...
...effect failed to post the immediate 10% increase that it voted for in Qatar. Instead, the Indonesians have increased prices less than 6% on a grade of crude that accounts for more than half the country's output. The motivation seemed to be a desire not to tempt Japan-the buyer of most of Indonesia's oil-to turn to Saudi Arabia for oil. Said one official of the Mining Ministry: "What is the fun of fixing high prices if the Indonesian crude subsequently is not sold...