Shiite Moslems in other Arab states, as so many pundits have predicted. Rather, Iran will probably continue its current "open door" policy with the West, step- ping up trade with Canada, West Germany, and Japan. (In 1983-84, those nations accounted for more than 50 percent of Iran's exports and 70 percent of its imports.)
Relations between the United States and Iran are not beyond repair; Khomeini "is now determined to terminate Iran's pariah status in world affairs." Recently,...
1964, the stockpile had grown so large that President Lyndon B. Johnson decided that no more newly enriched uranium was needed. Since then, new warheads have been fashioned only from recy- cled materials.
Between 1956 and 1969, the United States repeatedly asked Moscow to agree on limits to the production of weapons-grade material. Those proposals went nowhere. The USSR then lagged way behind the United States in nuclear weaponry. Not until 1982, when the Soviets had caught up, did Foreign Minister...
huge trade and federal budget deficits. 1986 or '87, the red ink is likely to encourage higher interest rates, thus undermining U.S. economic growth. That would spell trouble for strug- gling Latin American countries.
Meanwhile, Brainard argues, bankers and politicians are deriving false comfort from the strong role that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played in the crisis. While the IMF has helped to ar- range "stretched out" loan payments and is policing austerity mea- sures...
April 1983, only half of the jobless had found work; their median annual earnings were only $6,726. Yet, Sehgal says, "the foreign-born do not seem more likely than the U.S.-born to be recipients of government benefits." Only 13 percent of the immigrants reported receiving unemployment checks, food stamps, or other forms of federal assistance; among native Ameri- cans, the figure was 14 percent.
That recent arrivals should suffer economic hardship at first is not surprising. But Sehgal...
Wallace Peterson and Paul S.Es-tenson, in The Journal of Post Keynesian Recovery? Economics (Summer 1985), Rutgers Uni- versity, Winants Hall, New Brunswick,
N.J. 08903.
That the U.S. economy enjoyed a substantial recovery in 1983 is not in doubt. But how and why the economy rebounded have become hotly debated subjects among "supply-side" and Keynesian economists.
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ECONOMICS, LABOR, & BUSINESS
The Reagan administration cites the...
the Reagan White House in 198 1 advocated cutbacks in social programs, reduced govern- ment regulation, and tax cuts for individuals and Big Business. Rea- gan's goal: to put more people to work and increase productivity, business investment, and personal savings. Yet, despite a 1981 tax cut that reduced the marginal tax rate on median-income families from
27.7 to 25 percent (and on upper-income families from 42.5 to 38 per- cent), participation in the labor force increased only 0.6 percent. The...
1990 is no longer within reach. What happened?
Public health officials point to an upsurge in teen-age pregnancies (out-of-wedlock babies die at a higher rate) and cite increased tobacco, drug, and alcohol use among pregnant women. They also claim that improved medical care is merely postponing the deaths of some infants who in earlier times would have died before birth, their deaths classi- fied as naturally aborted pregnancies.
But Miller blames cuts in federal funding of food stamps, Medicaid,...
the Bangkok government. Many of them have relatives in California's Central Valley.
"Are Criminals Made or Born?" Richard J. Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson, in The New York Times Magazine (Aue. 4, 19851, 229 West 43rd St., New YO&, N.Y. 10036.
When sociologists grapple with the question "What turns people into criminals?" they usually point to one of two factors: social circum- stances or genetic inheritance.
Herein lies the problem, contend Herrnstein and Wilson, who...
Salamat Ali, in Far Eastern Economic Review (July 18, 1985), G.P.O. Box 160, Hong Kong.
The press in India, among the world's largest and oldest, is also one of the most troubled. Though "free" Third World standards, it is plagued by continual conflict with India's government.
The Indian public can turn to more than 19,000 newspapers and maga- zines, with a total circulation of roughly 51 million. Although no truly "national" newspaper exists, many of the nine major English-language...
Salamat Ali, in Far Eastern Economic Review (July 18, 1985), G.P.O. Box 160, Hong Kong.
The press in India, among the world's largest and oldest, is also one of the most troubled. Though "free" Third World standards, it is plagued by continual conflict with India's government.
The Indian public can turn to more than 19,000 newspapers and maga- zines, with a total circulation of roughly 51 million. Although no truly "national" newspaper exists, many of the nine major English-language...