burning interior cabin materials, such as decorative draperies and polyvinyl fluoride ceiling pa~lels.
The danger related to the burning of interior cabin materials, say Hill and Borenstein, has been recognized as a safety hazard airplane manufacturers and airlines at least since 1966; yet no rules setting safe toxic gas and smoke en~ission levels for these materials have been de- veloped, much less adopted.
The failure of seats and the tiedown mechanism by which they are attached to the aircraft...
becoming involved in speculative areas not subject to
strict cost-benefit analysis and that emphasis on the "timeliness" of its
studies will result in excessive haste and errors. Congressional critics,
including House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon
(D-Tex.) fear that involvement in program evaluation will drag the
GAO into political battles and impair its independence and judgement.
Since 1970, Congress has refused to grant the GAO new authority
(e.g., subpoena power...
Philip Morrison and Paul F. Walker, in
Deterrent Scientific American (Oct. 1978),4 15 Madi-
son Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Since 1945, the United States has invested more than $2 trillion in its military establishment and, despite Soviet gains, stands today as the world's foremost military power. While pressures are mounting for the deployment of more costly weapons, Morrison, an M.I.T. physicist, and Walker, a research Fellow in Harvard's Program for Science and Inter- national Affairs, argue...
Philip Morrison and Paul F. Walker, in
Deterrent Scientific American (Oct. 1978),4 15 Madi-
son Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Since 1945, the United States has invested more than $2 trillion in its military establishment and, despite Soviet gains, stands today as the world's foremost military power. While pressures are mounting for the deployment of more costly weapons, Morrison, an M.I.T. physicist, and Walker, a research Fellow in Harvard's Program for Science and Inter- national Affairs, argue...
Douglas J. Bonnet, Jr., in Foreign
Affairs (Fall 1978), 428 East Preston St.,
Foreign Policy Baltimore, Md. 21202.
The U.S. Congress is now intimately involved in foreign policy and likely to remain so, whether it likes it or not, says Bennet, Assistant Secretary of State for congressional relations. "Presidents and Con- gresses of the future will find themselves thrust together in a tar-baembrace on the central international issues of their times, each unable to abdicate its responsibilities...
Douglas J. Bonnet, Jr., in Foreign
Affairs (Fall 1978), 428 East Preston St.,
Foreign Policy Baltimore, Md. 21202.
The U.S. Congress is now intimately involved in foreign policy and likely to remain so, whether it likes it or not, says Bennet, Assistant Secretary of State for congressional relations. "Presidents and Con- gresses of the future will find themselves thrust together in a tar-baembrace on the central international issues of their times, each unable to abdicate its responsibilities...
Captain Daniel de Beaujeu, the
French repeatedly tried to an~bush Braddock's forces during June but
found the advancing British troops too alert. Then, on July 9, 1755, the
British vanguard, a compact column of regulars with a few scouts out
in front, encountered a force of Frenchmen, Canadians, and Indians
head on. The latter reacted faster, quickly deploying along both flanks
of the British colun~n and seizing a strategic height.
The British vanguard withdrew under fire and collided with...
U.S. tactics.
Kiser, a research consultant in Soviet affairs, attacks the basic prem- ise of Huntington's linkage proposal-the presumed U.S. technological superiority over the Russians. (U.S. engineering firms, he says, have been buying Soviet pipe welding technology superior to anything in the West.) Russia's technological "unevenness," he says, needs to be better understood if the "technology gap" is to be more than a self-deceiving
U.S. political slogan.
"The Thrill...
John Kenneth Galbraith, in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (Fall 19781, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 901 North Broadway, White Plains, N.Y. 10603.
The new "post Keynesian" economics assumes that modern Western society is in a process of continuous, organic, and beneficent change. The most significant recent change has been the radical decline in the influence of supply and demand as a regulatory force over wages and prices-something that came about through the maturing of industrial society...
urging such things as less government regulation, the abandonment of farm subsidies, or the lowering of the minimum wage. Or, they can accept the decline of the market and concentrate on how to make economic performance serve as many interests as possible. That, says Galbraith, is "what post Keynesian economics is about."
"'Who, Me?': Jail As An Occupational Hazard" S. Prakash Sethi, in The
for Executives Wharton Magazine (Summer 1978), P.O. Box 58 1, Martinsville Center,...