Don Wright, Miami New;, NYTSpecial Features.
Don Wright portrayed the July 1977 economic summit of the "Big Seven" Western powers-held in London-as all talk and no action.
attention and cooperative efforts" through truly international ar-rangements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the International Monetary Fund, write Schaetzel and Malmgren. A handful of government heads, meeting intermittently, cannot hope to control world events.
ECONOMICS, LABOR &...
Mary A. Yeager, in The Journal of Economic History (Mar. 1980), Eleutherian Mills
Historical Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wil-
mington, Del. 19807.
Trade protection is commonly viewed as a crutch that governments occasionally hand to faltering domestic industries. Yeager, a UCLA his- torian, argues that tariffs and import quotas have supported the world's steel industries for so long that protection itself has become a key ingredient in steelmaking...
Mary A. Yeager, in The Journal of Economic History (Mar. 1980), Eleutherian Mills
Historical Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wil-
mington, Del. 19807.
Trade protection is commonly viewed as a crutch that governments occasionally hand to faltering domestic industries. Yeager, a UCLA his- torian, argues that tariffs and import quotas have supported the world's steel industries for so long that protection itself has become a key ingredient in steelmaking...
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ECONOMICS. LABOR & BUSINESS
from economic hardship. Far from expecting ever higher living stan- dards, most 19th-century Americans worried about recurrent economic depressions. Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, however, federal social programs and fiscal policy have put "floors" under most eco- nomic activity. Social Security, unemployment compensation, parity payments to farmers, federally insured bank deposits, and public works programs provide "a degre...
jected Anglo-Saxon surnames into Celtic areas of the British Isles but
left Celtic cultures intact.
According to the McDonalds' new estimate, which takes into account
the ethnic traditions of immigrant Americans as well as "bloodlines,"
less than half the population south of Pennsylvania was Anglo-Saxon.
(Unreliable figures from several states make accurate new nation-wide
estimates impossible.)
Where Barker and Hansen classified 64.5 percent of Marylanders as
Anglo-Saxon, the...
Reeve D. Vanneman, in American Journal Differences of Sociology (Jan. 1980), University of Chicago Press, 5801 Ellis Ave., Chicago,
111. 60637,
With their egalitarian traditions, Americans have always seemed less "class-conscious" than Europeans. Yet a survey of 9,371 British and American voters analyzed Vanneman, a University of Maryland so- ciologist, suggests that social class may be slightly more sharply de- fined by Americans than by Britons.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans surveyed...
crime, a doubling of crime coverage made crime twice as likely to be ranked as a major issue. Similarly, while families with members out of work were extremely sensitive to increased coverage of unemployment rates, opinion in families un- touched the problems held fairly constant.
Media coverage may affect people's notions of "what is important," to some degree. But the public's perceptions are more than a simple reflection of the front page.
"All the News That's Fit to Compute"...
Elliot S. Schreiber and
Douglas A. Boyd, in Journal of Communi- the Elderly cation (Winter 1980), P.O. Box 13358, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101.
The elderly are not only a large (1 1 percent) and growing part of the
U.S. population-but they watch more television than any other age group, according to the Nielsen ratings. Schreiber and Boyd, com- munications specialists at the University of Delaware, Newark, report that income, education, and age are good predictors of senior citizens' TV viewing habits.
The...
Elliot S. Schreiber and
Douglas A. Boyd, in Journal of Communi- the Elderly cation (Winter 1980), P.O. Box 13358, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101.
The elderly are not only a large (1 1 percent) and growing part of the
U.S. population-but they watch more television than any other age group, according to the Nielsen ratings. Schreiber and Boyd, com- munications specialists at the University of Delaware, Newark, report that income, education, and age are good predictors of senior citizens' TV viewing habits.
The...
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RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
subjects had to perform to create a just society.] Yet most scholars are convinced that he thought of man as being naturally good. Their belief is based on the claims of Mencius, a 4th Century B.C. Chinese philoso- pher, and on debatable interpretations of Confucius's own ambiguous sayings, asserts Hwang, a professor of philosophy at Duksung Women's College in South Korea.
For thousands of years, Chinese philosophers took Mencius at his word when he procl...