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1. «Sooner or later the country [China] will have to come to under­stand that society and the world we are living in simply cannot purchase stability at the expense of freedom.»

2. By spurring inflation, some economists say, consumers and compa­nies could be persuaded to spend more now.

3. To the U.S. nearly $100 million in equipment offered by Congress to Iraqi opposition groups may seem like a gift horse for the Iraqi Kurds. But the Iraqi Kurds themselves fear it may in fact be a Trojan horse that could bring them fresh disasters.

4. To cope with regulations of different governments, Intel is consid­ering building chips that can be electronically reprogrammed with differ­ent encryption strengths after they are built.

5. A reformed second chamber could have powers to block constitu­tional changes until after further general elections or a referendum. Such a chamber might perform the «checking» role that the judges might oth­erwise assume [Britain].

6. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the «damped» shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points... before a buyer could be found for them. Sound stocks at shrunk prices — and nobody to buy them. It looked as if US Industries' little partners were in a fair way to bankrupt the firm.

7. A single nuclear bomb exploding in the atmosphere over the United States could lead to a nationwide power blackout because U.S. power stations are too vulnerable, according to an official study.

8. Months of wrangling over fishing rights have led to tension be­tween EU governments, and there are fears that this could spill over to embitter discussion of a series of other problems at the two-day meeting starting on Monday.

9. The foreign banks are launching a counterattack into markets for domestic loans and services that until now have been dominated by the Japanese banks. They are also exploring some new fields that the Japa­nese banks could not, or would not touch.

10. The report noted that companies could claim back the entire cost of investments in plant and machinery in tax relief— one of the most fa­vorable tax benefits of any industrialized nation.

11. Berlin left open the possibility that its assistance program could be paid for through outright grants and that government-to-government lar­gess might be arranged for other development projects.

12. Britain both could have and should have stayed out of the Second World War, leaving Russia to crush Hitter's Germany.

13. People in Russia say that the former president could have been a better president if he had been able to be elevated one degree above the political combat he faced.

14. Now OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) will begin to force employers to give workers their medical records and also the records of air pollution inspections conducted by the company which could have caused poor health to the worker, declared the head of the OSHA Administration.

15. If Japan's population had been half its present level, or—more rea­sonably — one-third, the country could have enjoyed a relatively high level of industrialization while continuing to produce enough foodstuffs to prevent disaster in the event of cutoffs in international trade,

16. Secret «briefings» were used to discredit the probe which is trying to root out corruption in the London police. Ex-chief constable of Dorset was bitterly assailed by Metropolitan Police Commissioner and City of London police chief. Secret briefings followed yesterday in a shameless attempt to discredit him. His view is that as many as 25 police officers could be brought to trial.

17. Outlining circumstances in which Washington might use nuclear weapons may seem a surreal exercise.

18. Situations in which America may have to choose between rival policies advocated by her European partners are bound to arise.

19. Such is the speed of history today that, when this is published, so many new and perhaps more shocking developments may have taken place that the events herein detailed may seem even more remote.

20. In reality the Pope may not have been anxious to see his sugges­tion, advanced from the marble rostrum of the General Assembly on Oc­tober 4, enacted a bare six weeks later.

21. EU sources said France will favor protectionist measures in critical sectors, but because of German resistance this may not be agreed to at the EU level.

22. Some economic analysts predict that the tax-cutting and the splurge in consumerism may backfire on the Likud [one of the Israeli parties].

23. The relationship between Japan and the United States has been evolving rapidly since Pearl Harbor. First, the two countries were bitter enemies, then occupier and occupied, then big brother and eager emulator and now it may have reached the point of role reversal.

24. In the big cities, the contest may have generated too much enthu­siasm, creating a fog of names, that voters may find hard to penetrate.

25. Cheap oil might merely aggravate the twin evils of corruption and bad management in oil-producing countries.

26. Some excuse for the behaviour of Tory chieftains might be pro­vided if it could be shown that the leadership battle revolved round central issues of public importance. But throughout, the dispute has been con­cerned with personalities and patronage — gang warfare in all its sterility.

27. When the delegates are taken to see the outstanding work of the Road Research Laboratory, and the examples of brilliant design and con­struction of British technicians and workers, they will be able to compare in their minds' eye what might be, with what is.

28. Finally, a new political balance in Europe, based on effective unity, might turn out to be the precondition of disengagement.

29. The Prime Minister mentioned that a more radical stand on some issues might have enabled the party to have avoided defeat.

30. There were signs that this tour might have marked a turning point..31. Discussions could explore the economic problems that might fol­low disarmament and the question of security.

32. Such problems, as a rule, may begin well before the trial and con­tinue after the appeal.

33. Thus the Government appears to be sending conflicting signals to the United States at a time when government officials and industrialists in this country are expressing deep concern over the policies the American administration might take both in the south Asia region and with regard to aid to developing Third World nations.

34. A senior research scientist said their requests for information were met by delays of years and they had received no classified information since November.

They state «one might as well ask whether the present Administration is as honest as the previous one.»

35. As a result, the government might try to close the gap by increas­ing taxes. But in its turn that would also cut purchasing power.

36. The sinking of the Nissho Maru will be recorded as an accident that might have been avoided.

37. If cash-strapped producers cut expenditure faster than consumers spend their windfall, the effect of lower oil prices might even be to slow world economic growth.

38. He might have fallen into the trap but he understood the danger in time.

39. The victory of the Liberal Party with an overall majority over the Progressive Conservatives and the New Democratic Party reduces the bargaining position of the New Democratic Party. NDP, with growing trade union support, might have been expected to do better.

40. Just as oil's scarcity seemed a fact of life in the 1970s, its abun­dant flow might be too easily taken for granted to-day.

41. In a covering letter, the majority leader of Congress suggested that members might use his analysis in preparing public comments about the administration package.

42. Piracy in the harbor here, for years a petty annoyance, has reached such an outrageous level that shipping agents representing lines from the United States, Europe and the Far East are concerned that their maritime unions might boycott the port.

43. He said he expected that a committee concerned with energy is­sues would be set up. Although this Committee would not be empowered to discuss the question of oil prices, which remains the prerogative of OPEC, it seems that security of supplies, as well as energy sharing, and the search for alternative energy sources, might be valid subjects for dis­cussion.

44. The prospect that exports might be boosted means that the meas­ures announced Friday will be scrutinized closely in Europe and the United States.

45. At the Mexico meeting, optimists at the Vienna talks declared it might be possible to lay foundations for a deal about global energy sup­plies. If the energy outlook can be stabilized it might be possible to strike a new deal about aid that would open both OPEC and Western purses and markets.

46. The impression that the Government and the G.P.O. [General Post Office] are prepared to turn a blind eye on the operations of the radio pi­rate stations has been encouraged by the delay in introducing legislation to outlaw them. The legislation is more complex than might have been imagined. The penalty clauses may well require requisition of the com­pany's assets on land as well as the stations.

47. It was the sort of message for which the smaller members of the alliance may well have been waiting.

48. In the opinion of some political connoisseurs, that measure may well improve the prospects of the Conservative party with the nation as a whole.

49. The British Premier and the French President might well talk also about the Middle East —a region which least of all has claims to being called static.

50. The Norwegian Foreign Minister has said that the Security Coun­cil might well be given greater powers over the financing of peacekeep­ing.

51. What can the West do to increase the chances of success, however defined? For a start, it can and should do its utmost to tell the Serb people at large that the outside world bears no animus against them.

52. The Home Secretary told chief constables that they must recruit thousands more officers from ethnic communities and should aim to make their manpower mirror the communities they cover.

53. The U.S. government spends millions every year policing the economy against agreements among competitors to restrict supply and thereby raise prices. Such conspirators ordinarily must meet in darkest se­crecy, and can go to jail if they get caught. Yet here is the administration pressuring Japanese automakers to do precisely what it ordinarily forbids.

54. We must not assume that the free play of public opinion must reg­ister itself in parliamentary forms.

55. The US President outlined a foreign policy of active involvement overseas, saying Americans «must embrace the inexorable logic of globalization)).

56. In the long run, if Brazil is to avoid foreign-exchange problems and boost its growth rate, it must do more than just tinker with the current policy mix.

57. In massive demonstrations in colleges all over the country yester­day, students showed exactly what they thought of the Government's plan to treble the fees of overseas students. If the Education Minister didn't get the message three weeks ago, when more than 4,000 students lobbied their MPs, then it surely must have been rammed home on him yesterday.

58. It must have been hard for them to agree to this resolution, but at that time there was no alternative course open to them.

59. Meanwhile it will not have escaped notice that some members (of EU) seem to be contemplating just that sort of un-European behaviour.

60. The visit will have been a pleasant and useful excursion for the State Secretary.

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