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The European Rate Mechanism: It Continues To Function, But ...., Daniel T. Murphy
The European Rate Mechanism: It Continues To Function, But ...., Daniel T. Murphy
Law Faculty Publications
The recession from which the United States is just emerging, and in which much of the rest of the industrialized world is still mired, differs from many others preceding it. In part this is so here because some of the classic nostrums appear ineffective. For some time, interest rates in the United States have been at their lowest level in decades. Yet the low interest rates do not appear to be producing the usual effect of spurring capital investment and economic growth as rapidly as might be expected.
One reason that they have not produced the usual rate of growth …
Poison Gas Proliferation: Paradox, Politics, And Law, John Paul Jones
Poison Gas Proliferation: Paradox, Politics, And Law, John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
After the outbreak of the 1991 Gulf War, Israeli civilians within the range of Iraqi SCUD missiles and allied troops in Operation Desert Storm braced themselves for a chemical weapons attack. Despite experts' assessments that Iraq possessed enough chemical weapons to mount a devastating attack, and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's threats to use those weapons,3 the fighting ended without a chemical attack. President Bush's veto and the Iraqis' restraint represent just two of the many paradoxes surrounding the proliferation of the "poor man's atom-bomb." This Article analyzes a series of paradoxes emanating from President Bush's campaign against chemical weapons.
Part …