other nations of weapons that use their components. The United States has blocked sales of Sweden's Viggen fighter and Israel's Kfir fighter bomber because these aircraft use American-built parts. The Soviet Union is even more restrictive; only India can produce modem Soviet weapons under license.
These curbs guarantee continued superpower dominance of the arms trade. In the Iran-Iraq war, for example, both superpowers have, since 1983, thwarted sales to Iran of tanks, air-defense systems, or jet...
tax cuts and deregulation of interstate commerce the Reagan administration; states that followed suit, such as Florida and Illi-nois, have enjoyed robust economic gains. The 1980s experience indicates that Washington should not try to block change through an "industrial policy"; it should pursue market-oriented trade and monetary policies, allowing all areas of the nation to attain "long-run economic success."
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requiring binding arbitration to solve disputes) making mem- bership more attractive.
Why are government unions losing members more slowly than their counterparts in business? Freeman sees U.S. corporations as more fer- vently "antiunion" than during past decades. Executives in industry who oppose unions and union wage demands can increase profits; mayors or governors who try to thwart employee unions may find themselves losing the next election.
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A rising number of children in the United States are being raised hired workers, rather than by parents or family. A 1984 Census Bureau study reported that eight percent of working mothers rear their children them- selves, 40 percent give them to relatives during the day, and 52 percent hire others to tend their offspring.
However, according to Zinsmeister, a free-lance writer and demogra- pher,...
"American Indian Household Structure and In-come" Gary D. Sandefur and Arthur Saka-moto, in Demography (Feb. 1988), Population Association of America, 1429 Duke St., Alexan- dria, Va. 22314-3402.
American Indians, as a group, are among the nation's least affluent people. Sandefur and Sakamoto, sociologists at the University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, find a surprising source of Indians' economic survival: the dominance of the traditional family.
Forty-three percent of Indians lived in...
an Indian as "Indian families"; non-Indian men who marry Indians are defined as heading non- Indian households. Since more than half of married Indian women have non-Indian husbands, this definition is "especially significant" in determin- ing which Indian families, rich or poor, are counted the government.
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65 percent (64 million), while the U.S. popula- tion rose only 18 percent (37 million). Between 1984 and 1986, auto vehicle usage rose twice as fast as the U.S. population. This "automobile vehicle population explosion" is the chief villain, along with the sprawl of suburban office buildings and such massive shopping centers as Tysons Comer in Virginia and the Oakbrook Shopping Center near Chicago.
The most popular suburban antigrowth strategy is to make new build- ings very expensive....
mid- century. But while washstands became common, bathtubs were still a nov- elty; in 1860, Boston had only 3,910 of them for a population of 177,840. Full-body bathing provided an adventure to those who tested it out. As New York socialite George Templeton Strong commented after building himself a bathroom in 1843, "I've led rather an amphibious life for the last week-paddling in the bathing tub every night and constantly making new discoveries in the art and mystery of ablutions."
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Channels (Mar. 1988), 19 West 44th St., New
York, N.Y. 10036.
"Only one thing is impossible for God," Mark Twain once remarked. It is "to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
Twain's quip, notes Bollier, a Channels contributing editor, aptly de- scribes the current imbroglio over the ownership of TV programs. Televi- sion copyright law, he argues, has become a "baroque monstrosity."
Even using photocopiers, reproducing printed material...
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F. Lawrence, in Fortune (Apr. 25, 19881, Time Economics and Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New
York, N.Y. 10020-1393.
"ECONOMY WEAKENING, EXPERTS SAY," was the headline of the lead front-page story in the February 2, 1988 Miami Herald. "For once, economists are in agreement," the story began. "The big chill everyone feared is here."
A month later, the Herald changed its mind. In a story buried on the business page, the Herald reported that America's gross...