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...legitimate field like economics, the scope of analysis spans the gamut from radical/Marxist to supply side. The focus of economics is the arrangement of economic actors in society and their inter-relationships. Economists of different persuasions can take the same data and arrive at different conclusions, which conclusions can be compared and tested logically or empirically...
...protest aimed not only to protest Cornell's investments in South Africa, but also to challenge a court injunction that Cornell secured to limit the scope of political protests, the professor said...
...range and scope of electronic trading increases, so may the regulatory headaches. Says Gary Lynch, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief: "The internationalization of the markets is a huge potential problem unless regulators are prepared to cooperate." Since May, the SEC and U.S. commodity-exchange regulators have signed memorandums of understanding with Japan and Britain, agreeing to share information in trading-fraud cases...
...what many analysts see as the one plausible rationale for the program: its use as a bargaining chip. None of the other justifications for SDI has ever been entirely credible. Partly for that reason, the Administration has made SDI a moving target for its critics, constantly changing its stated scope and goal...
Gorbachev's offer to reduce the grossly inflated Soviet strategic forces by 50%, if genuine, represents a goal we have sought for more than a decade. To his predictable demand that the ABM treaty be strengthened, we should have responded by seriously addressing his legitimate concerns about the scope of SDI testing, rather than switching suddenly to a proposed elimination of all ballistic missiles...