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...dollars and British pounds have been relied on as the world's two most trustworthy currencies for trade. This, in turn, has led to undue pressure on dollars and pounds, which if allowed to continue, could stagnate foreign trade. So far, at least, international trade continues to thrive, and has actually doubled in the past ten years. But the worrisome fact remains that during this same period, world reserves have grown by barely...
Whatever the level of federal bil lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers...
...start with the hitherto unsolvable plight of the refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment and live within its means; it now spends a third of its national budget on defense...
...Felix ("Pedro") Pedroni, an Italian immigrant who in 1902 made the first strike in the hills above Fairbanks. It also traces -of course-the peregrinations of Alaska's late poet laureate, Robert W. Service, who wrote: "This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive...
...Woodward argues that primary emphasis must be on social reforms because the Viet Cong thrive in their absence. Yet field work in Southeast Asian villages convinces me that conditions of insecurity and the promise of power more nearly explain the Viet Cong than does lack of reforms. In most villages, government, aside from an occasional policeman, has never been a significant presence. Consequently nothing in the village can stand up to a determined guerrilla minority. Steve Young...