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...Carter, like his modern predecessors, resents congressional interference in U.S. foreign policy, particularly the post-Viet Nam laws that limit U.S. intervention abroad or the shipment of military aid to friendly governments resisting Communist insurgency. These restrictions in turn inhibit the U.S. in negotiations; by not being able to threaten the use of force, the U.S. loses its edge at the bargaining table...
...international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert on multinationals: "When you've got a foreign-owned final assembly...
What is the FBI'S role other than to ensure our country's freedom and be ever watchful of those who threaten...
Martha Roberts came back in the doubles with her sister Sally to threaten the Dartmouth sweep once more. Playing the team of Awad and Wendell for the third time and as many losses, the Roberts duo was "really fired up," according to Coach Peter Felske...
...baseball mogul said, "most of the players have gone to a few clubs." In the last two years, 56 per cent of these performers have been signed by just five of the teams, and 76 per cent by eight teams. Competition has yet to be unbalanced, but "you threaten to create an elite group of clubs," Kuhn said...