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...more aware of this than the Arabs in Israel and the surrounding countries. Yet only when these Arabs adopt such a spirit, can peace come to our region. Then the Palestinian refugees will say aloud what they feel in their hearts...
...foam. Because cross-country skis are booming, Boix-Vives plans to double capacity in that department this year to 350,000 skis. But his strategy involves more than expansion of capacity. As volume grew in the mid-'60s, the company's increased productivity enabled Boix-Vives to adopt a policy of, as he puts it, "aggressive pricing"; Rossignol prices stayed completely stable from 1964 all the way to 1972. Today Rossignol produces eight principal lines of skis, competitively priced from $50 (for cross-countries) to $230 a pair. Boix-Vives has also sought out the world...
Everything concerning minority admissions and recruitment has been acquired through struggle, everything from getting the program, to making it work, to keeping the program. The hardest struggle, however, has been to get Harvard to adopt fair criteria for Third World people. Harvard has certain "objective" and "subjective" criteria that determine if a person is to be accepted. When applied to Third World students, these criteria show that Harvard thinks America is still the land of the rich and the white...
...must many of the 42 other smaller regional breweries, whose overall market share has been shrinking. Those embattled companies might adopt as their anthem the jingle composed by Irish Novelist Brian O'Nolan in praise of Guinness stout, a brew so syrupy that a well-fed mouse could safely tread across its creamy head...
...Synthesis--Convince the person of influence on "our side" to convey this yesable proposition to the significant actors on "their side" in a simple, direct and convincing way, so that they may adopt this suggestion and help solve the conflict...