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What were the conflicting Iranian statements supposed to mean? To some observers, they were an example of skillful psychological warfare aimed at wearing down Washington's resolve. Other experts contended that the Iranians were merely behaving like rug merchants in a classic Persian bazaar, demanding the maximum but willing to settle for quite a bit less...
Such considerations as "morality, democracy and justice" are not values to be taken lightly. Harberger does not seem to recognize that massive repression, unemployment, hunger, and torture are social costs incurred by his Draconian monetarist measures. The ideal is not maximum possible efficiency within Harberger's limited econometric model, but the optimum degree of economic efficiency with the maximum freedom from suffering, persecution, and exploitation for everyone in the population...
...appropriation was one of several changes Hogan announced yesterday as a result of a federal task force report recommending improvements for the institution at Walpole, the state's only maximum security prison...
Your article "Climbing That First Job Rung" [Jan. 21] should have been the cover story. Economist Walter Williams claims that the rising minimum wage almost guarantees maximum unemployment for the young and unskilled. Because of the unearned rise in hourly wages, how many people age 14 to 17 are out of a job? We've cut the bottom rung off the economic ladder...
...protest one step further. The investigators believe that the controller tampered with the tower's computer to erase the Aeroflot's identification tag; then either he or a colleague ordered the plane down to the dangerously low altitude. Such action would constitute a crime carrying a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and 20 years in prison...