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only major market from which Japan buys manufactured "primary"
goods such as textiles and chemicals-thus making European exports
highly vulnerable to Japan's protectionist forces; and (b) the Japanese
need for a balance-of-payments surplus to pay for their oil imports-
between 1973 and 1976, annual Japanese outlays for Middle Eastern oil
climbed $13.8 billion.
Japan's success in the competitive struggle unleashed by the oil crisis is...
greater degree among nonwhites, are cardiovascular disease, cancer, infant mortality, accidents, and homicide.
The social and economic consequences of attacking early death, Vau- pel writes, are less disruptive than those of extending old age. Reduc- tions in early deaths would be unlikely to produce major demographic changes in the population. Designing programs to deal with the prob- lem will nevertheless be a vast undertaking, Vaupel acknowledges. New funds for "early death" research,...
greater degree among nonwhites, are cardiovascular disease, cancer, infant mortality, accidents, and homicide.
The social and economic consequences of attacking early death, Vau- pel writes, are less disruptive than those of extending old age. Reduc- tions in early deaths would be unlikely to produce major demographic changes in the population. Designing programs to deal with the prob- lem will nevertheless be a vast undertaking, Vaupel acknowledges. New funds for "early death" research,...
turns comic and moving, remained untold for more than a century and a half after his death.
Jackasses of the size and quality Washington's vision demanded were not easily found. The best were Spanish and under export restrictions. For a time the general despaired until he received a royal gift from Spain's Charles I11 of two blooded jacks, one of which survived the Atlantic crossing to reach Mount Vernon in 1785. Lafayette soon sent over another, from Malta.
Breeding proved an uncertain business,...
Alfred Soman, in Annales-Economies. Sociktks, civilisations ("01.32, no. 4, 1977), Librairie Armand Colin, 103 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75240 Paris, France.
Witchcraft trials were common in France during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. During the 17th century, however, the highest court in the land, the Parlement of Paris, began to reduce the sentences meted out to men and women convicted of sorcery.
According to most modern scholars, the Parlement's harsh attitude began to change only...
Alfred Soman, in Annales-Economies. Sociktks, civilisations ("01.32, no. 4, 1977), Librairie Armand Colin, 103 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75240 Paris, France.
Witchcraft trials were common in France during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. During the 17th century, however, the highest court in the land, the Parlement of Paris, began to reduce the sentences meted out to men and women convicted of sorcery.
According to most modern scholars, the Parlement's harsh attitude began to change only...
compared with a 42 percent Carter vote among other professionals. Academics are also more likely to approve of premarital sex (62 per- cent) and to favor reductions in military spending (46 percent). They are more likely than leaders of feminist groups, civil-rights organiza- tions, students, and newspaper and television reporters to advocate ceilings on personal income.
However, a sizeable majority of professors (65 percent) indicated con- fidence in bankers and financiers. More than two-thirds...
those in the natural sciences, business administration, and engineering. Professors of agriculture are farthest to the right.
PRESS & TELEVISION
"The Elite Press, the Global System, and Foreign News Attention" Andrew K. Sernrnel, in International Interactions (vol. 3, no. 4, 1977), 42 William IV St., London WC2N 4DF, England.
Major American newspapers are fond of advertising their worldwide coverage of the news. But one scholar's study of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mia...
the Miami Herald of Latin America and the Caribbean-an emphasis that appeals to Miami's large Spanish- speaking population.
All nations are not equally important to Americans or to each other, the author concedes. But reliance on occasional "fuzzy snapshots" of events in most countries, he argues, is likely to lead to pervasive igno- rance among the American public of the "scope and novelty" of changes occurring throughout the world.
"Away from Accommodation: Radical
Editors...
subscriptions only, ridiculed Washing- ton's "soulless" materialism. Du Bois's philosophy was simple: "If you are going to take up the wrongs of your race, then you must depend for support absolutely upon your race."
Du Bois's success, the authors conclude, spurred the establishment in 1911 of Crisis convincing the rest of the NAACP leadership that a black journal could attract and retain a large readership while remain- ing independent of white financing or influence.
"Do...