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...Heritage Foundation, a private think-tank which has been a font of ideas for the administration, argues that the controversial idea "would land to a flood of litigation, massive wage redistribution, a distortion of free market principles and, ultimately, widespread job dislocation...
...most of the other Corporation members. He recently retired as chairman of Time, Inc. and, as a trustee of New York Public Library, recently directed a major fundraising effort which many say has helped turn the system around. In addition, he serves on the board of the liberal think-tank Brookings Institution and as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania...
...industrial policy" is more nebulous. Basically, he would coordinate disparate Government policies (banking regulations, tax laws, research-and-development funding) according to one grand strategy. Some of his specific economic plans are reasonable enough, but others seem almost too clever, as if the candidate acquired ideas wholesale from a think-tank catalogue. Hart recommends bold agreements between labor, industrial management and Wall Street. Fine, but he practically ignores the political and bureaucratic impediments. It might be a good idea to set up a presidential Council on Emerging Issues to address long-term economic strategy, but Hart's high hopes...
...these effects are projected by economic think-tank Data Resources Inc. should South America declare a general default on debt owed to U.S. banks. The international debt crisis, which began in 1981, is deeply rooted in world events of the past 15 years, and shows with painful clarity how tightly the U.S. economy is bound to the rest of the world...
...troubling implication in that idea is that if a nuclear war could be won, it would probably be won by the nation that struck first, by surprise. No top U.S. official would say that Moscow might be designing its strategy based on such a preemptive strike, but some think-tank strategists are less reticent. Says Raymond Garthoff of the Brookings Institution: "If war came, they would probably launch an all-out attack on the U.S. They might go first, with everything...