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...Boston, acquiring a reverence for these institutions of healing. Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort to such ruthless tactics as shutting off the heat and hot water on the coldest days of winter or setting loose a German police dog to attack the tenants in the hallways of the building...
...quite clearly, the strategy of his-and-her vacations, so often recommended for, and sometimes even beneficial to, marriages in distress. There was Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau slipping down the snowy slopes and flipping off the diving board at Utah's Snowbird mountain resort. And there was Wife Margaret, tripping through Boston's Logan Airport, her three young children in tow, on a visit to her sister in Winchester, Mass. Earlier, the P.M. had made a pilgrimage to that shrine sought by every world statesman-California's Disneyland. "My kids would have loved to see this...
America, the protectionists argue, is living in a free-trade fool's paradise; other nations casually resort to a variety of ruses to keep out unwanted goods. No fewer than 850 nontariff barriers have been uncovered that do not necessarily break the letter of the law of free trade but certainly tax its spirit. Foreign governments may subsidize export industries by waiving taxes or granting easy bank loans. They may impose cumbersome safety standards, customs procedures and packing and labeling regulations. Japan, for example, insists on its own chemical analysis of imported perfumes and cosmetics; the delays in completing...
...anti-inflation program, probably next week. Indications are that it will stress voluntary cooperation by business and labor in restraining prices and wages. But business is still jittery about potential wage-price controls, which could hold down the profits from new plants. Many executives seem convinced that Carter will resort to them if inflation gets out of hand, despite repeated Administration assurances to the contrary. Says a White House economist: "No matter what Carter says, businessmen still think he's going to turn around in twelve months and slap on controls. It's an irrational fear." Shifting regulatory...
...develop contingency plans for all possible situations and inevitably the bottom line of all these plans is 'victory'. So we quit trying to negotiate and resort to the military course of action--like the Bay of Pigs...