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...hand, it is expected to break even; Government subsidies are even now being phased out, with 1984 as a hoped-for cut-off date. On the other hand, it is expected to provide all kinds of public services-many of them money losing-that Americans have depended on for generations, and still depend on today. "The Postal Service," says the law, "shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Yet "postal rates and fees shall provide sufficient revenues so that...
...tourist economy of the Grenadines-and even of more "developed" areas, like the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands-is much affected by chartering. Hotels and restaurants on the more remote islands depend entirely on the nights yachtsmen pass ashore, and last year bareboaters spent at least $3 million during their port stops. All the same, shore facilities tend to be primitive, and there is no need to sleep or eat on land. The boats come self-sufficient: overhauled, clean, tanked up, stocked with food...
Like any blueprint for government, the viability of the new Greek constitution will depend heavily on those who enforce it. In that regard, Athens Publisher Helen Vlachos, who returned last year from a self-imposed exile during the colonels' dictatorship to revive her prestigious daily Kathimerini, is confident that it will work. Says Vlachos: "I know the people who drafted it. They are responsible, intelligent, dedicated Greeks. I trust them. Therefore I trust...
Some of those means, Coleman feels, are local school boards and state legislatures-because their actions require a consensus. But he believes that successful integration in the U.S. will also depend on "voluntary factors," including more racial intermarriage...
...isolationism) will become newly respectable. We are in danger of forgetting our oldest American tradition, that the nation exists for the sake of principles that can be shared. This nation first declared its independence in "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." Our uniqueness as a nation may depend on our ability and our power to preserve this paradox. In every generation we must once again declare our independence, while finding new ways to discover and declare our community with the world...