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There is one internal stimulus that industry does respond to most expeditiously: an unfavorable profit-and-loss statement. An enlightened buying public can help prevent America's socio-ecological crisis from becoming a fait accompli...
...that, opponents of the California Water Plan face a fait accompli: more than 75% of the system is already built and plans call for completion of the whole package by 1990. Moreover, the sheer challenge of the feat has become an end in itself. As one water engineer put it: "I see no sense in leaving several hundred miles of concrete ditch uncompleted...
...rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier Lon Nol, the general who helped depose Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State last month. "It is already a fait accompli. This...
...University is likely to be at odds with itself during the next year over the closely-linked issues of restructuring and choosing a new President. One group will apparently fight to remake the office of the President and present restructuring to candidates as a fait accompli. Another group may try to put off the creation of new administrative posts until the new President can take part in the negotiations. Pusey's powerful voice will presumably side with the second group...
...Enter Bel, France's largest cheese company, which may or may not have been behind the attack on Perrier to blunt its bid for Genvrain. Bel and Genvrain merge, and announce their combining as a fait accompli...