Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of a U.S.-made refrigerator passing through the distribution network can cost the consumer up to $1,000. Government "testing" of imported autos has also been a sore point for U.S. and European carmakers, mainly because Japanese standards are often set capriciously. Says U.S. Trade Representative Alan Wolf: "As soon as we solve one of these standards problems, another one comes...
Even so, American policymakers are under no illusion that Japan will be able to transform its system drastically at any time soon. Says Wolf: "In ten years, there may be a substantial change in the Japanese role in the world. But whether we will make it through that far without a good deal more irritation on both sides remains to be seen...
...cutbacks in spending and new sources of revenue three months ago. While some funds should be forthcoming from the state surplus, Ovrom based his new budget on the assumption that Monrovia would have to go it alone. Accordingly, many of the townspeople believe - understandably - that city hall is crying wolf. Concedes Ovrom: "Sure, a couple programs we cut may be restored, but we just can't count on much...
Journalists have a tendency to cry wolf whenever the courts seem to them to be trespassing on the sanctuary of press freedom; the impact of such decisions is sometimes milder than expected. The Supreme Court ruled in 1972, for instance, that journalists who observe a crime have no absolute right to protect confidential sources, but judges have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants...
...Gulag III Solzhenitsyn abandons the thesis that Soviet totalitarianism could not have developed had there been resistance from below. "A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf," he once raged. "We didn't love freedom enough. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure!" If only people had fended off their arresting officers with pokers instead of cowering "like rabbits in their warrens, paling with terror," then the cursed machine would have come to a halt," he added...