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...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which provides that an offended nation may raise tariffs by an amount equal to any losses resulting from discriminating tariffs. The U.S. listed for retaliation 19 major items representing $111,500,000 in annual Common Market exports to the U.S., but it will winnow the list down to cover only $46 million-the amount by which it claims it has been damaged by the poultry tariffs...
Messianic Claims. Undiscouraged by the amount of chaff that they feel obliged to winnow from the Gospels, the Marburgers are delighted that they have so much left of Jesus that even the most skeptical historian must accept. Moreover, the sayings of Jesus that they believe to be his in whole or part-rather than creations of the church-are of such a quality, says Zahrnt, that "a single, absolutely distinctive picture of the person and work of Jesus emerges." This person was a prophetic rabbi who taught the imminence of the Kingdom of God and who dared...
...decline in the chorus of political voices, the equalizing effect of the big wire services, whose international coverage appears?often verbatim?in nearly every U.S. daily, the glandular growth of syndicated features and columnists, and even the steadily rising per-copy cost of newspapers have all combined to help winnow the ranks. Newsmagazines have cut heavily into newspaper readership. So .has TV, which, from a-dead start around 1948, now absorbs some 14% of every advertising dollar?and five hours daily of the average televiewer's leisure time...
...seen publicly with their husbands for months were demanding that they were just as essential as Mrs. Khrush (only the celebrated married couples, e.g., Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Dick Powell and June Allyson, got automatic twosome invitations). Things were getting so tough that the host committee, trying to winnow Hollywood's must-be-seen-there thousands down to a sociable 400, flatly decided to discriminate against actors' agents...
While most national magazines are out after new subscribers, so they can raise their advertising rates, the Farm Journal is earnestly doing just the opposite. The 81-year-old monthly is trying to winnow some 220,000 non-farm readers out of its circulation of 3,533,956 and is already paring its ad rates accordingly. Last week readers without R.F.D. addresses were considering a special query from the magazine: "Do you own, operate, live on, work on a farm, or do business with a farmer?" If the answer was no, the subscriber got the choice of a cash rebate...