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...shrewd Washington Post column, Novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying), formerly a high priestess of sexual abandon, put the dilemma succinctly: "It's hard enough to find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan...
...Filipino-American community is not culturally accustomed to supporting foundations. We really don't know what reaction we'll receive to our initial thrust," he says...
...trade laws and enhance American competitiveness. The Administration initiative, which will reach Capitol Hill in late February, is part and parcel of an aggressive U.S. posture toward some of its closest economic partners. Coming at a time when the air is already thick with international trade recriminations, the new thrust carries a major risk: that it will do less to alter the commercial balance than to bolster the increasingly strong protectionist forces that threaten to gnaw away at world economic growth...
Sensing the militant new mood, the White House has already prepared a package of measures intended to improve American business competitiveness. The broad thrust of the Administration's approach will be unveiled in the President's Jan. 27 State of the Union address. Few of the measures, however, will bear directly on the central problems of the trade issue. They largely embrace such themes as stricter enforcement of antidumping laws and new definitions of monopoly that will take into account shares of international as well as domestic markets...
There have been other thrusts in past years. But the current adult literacy thrust seems to stem from the recognition that, while a little bit of literacy is better than none, it is not good enough today. What is needed today is the ability to read highly complex materials and to use it to solve problems and to learn on one's own. This level of literacy cannot be taught by engaging in a few reading excercises. It requires higher levels of language development, higher levels of reasoning, and advanced reading and study strategies...