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...withdraw from South Africa one should have a clear idea as to what that means. This problem was referred to by President Bok at the very close. Withdrawal means, in most cases, selling at a distress price to a Japanese or European firm whose attitude toward apartheid is apt to be worse, not better. The money thus realized must be invested for several years in South African government securities paying an interest rate about half that of the market. In other words, one must pay a ransom of some 40% of the sale price to the government that...
...pronounced joo-chay), which roughly translated is "mastery of one's destiny." Applied nationally, it means that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must be utterly self-reliant. Everything, in fact -from trucks and locomotives to scissors and machine tools-is homemade. A plant manager is apt to boast that no foreigner has ever been involved in his operation. "The quality might not be too perfect," one official admitted about consumer goods, "but they are good enough for us because we made them ourselves...
...analogy is both apt and ironic...
...these steps, which should bring the reactor temperature down to around 93° C (200° F), are only a prelude to the grand finale: a kind of exercise in Yankee ingenuity that the engineers are calling natural circulation. It is an apt name and involves elements of physics taught in grade school. Bypassing the residual heat removal system, the heat will be transported out of the core by free convection-the principle at work when hot water circulates in a simmering teakettle...
...shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even he is apt to produce worthless intelligence or metamorphose into a double-agent. The intelligence gained is simply not worth the monetary or human cost (at least 40 suicides among such agents in place have been documented according to Corson...