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...Kissinger's basic strategy for dealing with the oil cartel is 1) to threaten the OPEC countries with a break in prices in the future as the consuming countries gain greater energy independence, and 2) to hold out to the producers the promise of stable income over the long term if they agree to cooperate with the needs of the consumers...
...whom they find offensive. When such a speaker has been invited to the campus by one group, other groups may seek to dissuade the inviters from proceeding. But it is a punishable offense against the principles of the University, for the objectors to coerce others physically or to threaten violence...
Lester Brown, who is one of America's best agricultural economists, does not try to cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...
...population explosion does not directly threaten Russia, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada or the United States, the "rich nations." As they industrialized they broke the fertility barrier. Most of them are growing less than one per cent a year, and can expect to reach zero population growth within a generation or two. At worst population pressure will cause job and housing shortages. For the rest of the world, however, population growth is a problem on an entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century...
...purpose in putting up these announcements was not to enrage people or threaten traditional straight male supremacy, but simply to communicate with Gay and interested straight members of the community here at Harvard about a significant event...