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...measures being taken by nations seeking to isolate themselves from the effects of monetary instability. Then come the threats of a breakdown of world trade -caused partly by protectionism, partly by uncertainty about what exchange rates will be the next day or even the next hour-followed by a speedup in global inflation and, finally, international recession. Relations between Washington and its two most important economic allies, West Germany and Japan, both of which are crucially dependent on exports for economic growth, have already deteriorated alarmingly. But doomsday is not inevitable. For more than three decades the world has looked...
Part of the confusion arises because Carter must try to satisfy many constituencies besides business-liberals, labor, blacks-and he has zigged and zagged between their conflicting demands. Generally, he has pleased environmentalists far more than businessmen-but he also has proposed a speedup in the licensing of nuclear power plants that dismays some environmentalists. More important, he pleased business initially by asking for an increase in the minimum wage so small that AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "shameful." Now, he is prepared to sign a bill increasing the minimum wage by 45%, to $3.35 an hour...
Another criticism that the Administration had to counter concerned its timing. The sudden speedup in the drive to reach Geneva by year's end raised suspicions that Washington's zeal might have had less to do with urgent realities in the Middle East than with the Administration's own hankering for some important post-Lance affair foreign policy successes. Vance concedes that the year-end goal for Geneva is totally arbitrary. But he maintains that Middle East diplomacy had been stalled for so long that some calendar goal, however artificial, was necessary if the peacemaking momentum was ever...
...cohesion among the main lobbying groups (the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the N.F.I.B. and the elite Business Roundtable), new tactics and a new awareness by executives that they need to make their voice heard on Capitol Hill. Though some experts trace the speedup in business lobbying efforts to 1973, when AFL-CIO President George Meany's call for election of a "vetoproof Congress prodded corporate leaders into action, all agree that the biggest spur was the election of Jimmy Carter. Says the N.F.I.B.'s Motley: "With Ford in there we could count...
...have any particular program," says Stanley, whose recruits now total about 500. "If you're gifted and motivated, we'll help you do anything that fits you." The purpose of this speedup, says Stanley, is "so that mathematically talented youths can devote their most productive years to research." He adds: "Lots of people in this world worry mostly about those who have low ability. Somebody has to worry about the gifted...