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...investments and intellectual-property rights. Fully half the nations involved would like to see a sharp cutback in the subsidies that rich countries pay their farmers at the expense of their own ability to trade agricultural commodities. Growers in the industrial countries reaped income and price supports to the tune of $250 billion last year. The European Community and the U.S. have been the worst offenders, with farm subsidies totaling $97 billion in the E.C. and $67 billion in the U.S. European agriculture ministers last week agreed on a 10- year plan to cut domestic farm subsidies by 30% from...
...Undergraduate Council and Harvard Watch, aRalph Nadersponsored watchdog group, have calledfor more student involvement in the searchprocess, but some Harvard affiliates say that thecommittee is already in tune with undergraduateconcerns...
...first clues to these answers, tune in to next week's Nielsen ratings. And attend to the show's spiritual leader as he considers his delectable career crisis. "I'm real busy," Lynch says. "And I'm busy not always on things that I think are important. Making a new film is important. Making each episode of Twin Peaks is important. And painting and music. But there's a lot of things in between that take a lot of time. Take this day: I haven't shot a scene, I haven't written anything, I haven't done anything...
Assuming this analysis prevails, what is left for the Administration is to fine-tune the run-up to hostilities. The question now being debated concerns provocation: What Iraqi action could credibly justify a fight? Is the invasion of Kuwait in itself adequate? Some in the Administration argue that it is, but "the longer war is delayed, the more contrived such a pretext would appear," says an American intelligence-community planner. "We've been bedeviled by the pretext thing for weeks, but we were greatly heartened by the Iraqi raid of foreign embassies" in Kuwait last Friday. "That kind of stupidity...
...over the past few years by the Fox network, MTV and other competitors. NBC has come up with hip-hopping shows like Ferris Bueller and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. CBS is trying to get the youngsters who flocked to the theaters for comic-book extravaganzas like Batman to tune in for a lavishly produced fantasy series, The Flash. (Unfortunately, the show has been scheduled in the Thursday-night death slot, opposite The Cosby Show and The Simpsons...