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...programs acquire an interest in preserving and justifying their functions and powers. Another factor is sentimentality-a feeling that farm life fosters the old-fashioned virtues. Many defenders of the price-support system argue it is needed to preserve the family farm, that disappearance of the family farm would weaken the moral fabric of the nation. And then-there's politics. The farm population has been declining for many decades, but farmers still make up a substantial enough minority in many states that legislators are wary of offending the farm vote. Finally, there is the brute fact of overproduction...
Harris said that cutting tariffs vis-a-vle the Common Market might weaken its "basic glue--the common tariff wall--and could worsen, rather than improve, our favorable balance of trade...
...tragic if such suspicions obstructed those efforts which could regear the Geneva negotiations toward areas of possible agreement. President Kennedy should, before ordering the resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, propose a list of reputable and responsible American scientists willing to implement an inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there are "no neutral men," and at the same time, undercut the recurrent fear that inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there are "no neutral men," and at the same time, undercut the recurrent fear that inspection means espionage...
...hero realizes his duty and secretly does the same. Unaware of his decision, the heroine decides that he is merely a lightweight, and goes back to her husband. At the fade, while the violins soar among the bomb bursts, the poor misunderstood playboy dies heroically in an attempt to weaken the Wehrmacht's defenses in Normandy...
...rigidly to a line of Cold War opportunism whose ends have even been misguided. Naturally our support of the French in the name of anti-communism antagonized nationalists of every political hue. Somehow we assumed that the Bao Dai regime, instituted by the French in 1949 to divide and weaken the independence movement, had popular support. And after the war was over we continued to support this regime, rather than the nationalists who had temporarily collaborated with the Communist guerrillas in the name of inpendence and were best able to gauge future Communist tactics...