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The demands for protection would not abate because for the U.S. industry competing against imports, it doesn't matter how the clothing was produced . When the U.S. consumer is offered cheaper shirts from abroad, the United States loses the same number of shirt-making jobs regardless of whether the shirts were produced by workers making 30 cents an hour or $30 an hour.
Frank Abate (“Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover” [XVIII,2]) missed a few choice names: there is a village (though without a post office) named Obtuse , Connecticut; many know about Truth-or-Consequences , New Mexico, named for an old quiz show.
Frank Abate writes that “the recent comeback [of Latin studies] owes much to the recognition of Latin's pedagogical value, especially as a vocabulary builder, something both intuitively and statistically known to be true.
The government’s resolve did not abate, however.
Frank R. Abate