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Almost everybody agrees that an important step is to simplify the mission of COCOM, which, in an effort to do too much, is letting too many important products slip through. By limiting the number of restricted items, the U.S. could insist on tighter enforcement and higher penalties for violators than under the present system of comprehensive controls. "Higher walls around fewer items" has become a rallying cry for businessmen and Government officials searching for ways to protect truly vital technology without relying on blanket controls...
...each semester resumes clutter each professor's desk. Talented Faculty of Arts and Sciences graduate students still do the bulk of the teaching, but the less-than-competent manage to slip through the cracks. As a result, undergraduates get whomever's available...
...spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised would make the recipients invisible to government soldiers. The widespread belief in magical powers that pervades the region induced thousands of Ugandans to accept these assertions...
...folksy that it is jarring to hear him privately revert to his more acerbic Washington self. "People out there know I'm working," Dole snaps when asked if his Senate duties detract from his campaign. "They know Bush doesn't have to." Tired, Dole lets his affability slip. "Bush hasn't said word one since the market crashed," he says angrily. "He has nothing to worry about; he can just go out on Air Force Two, using dozens of federal employees, at a cost of millions . . ." Dole's voice trails off, his flare of resentment spent...
...Germany face less pressure for wage increases. Despite the strong mark, Germany has become the world's leading exporter. Japan is openly contemptuous of the notion that the U.S. can solve its problems through devaluation. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "Letting the dollar slip now is like spitting up into the sky." Another Japanese economist is equally blunt: "America is no longer in control of its own currency...