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FRANCE A NUCLEAR POWER? THIS MAY BE feasible, there may be credence to it, but to what avail? These tests have been carried out in total disregard for the environment and the hazards posed to the ecosystem. What's more, the impounding of Greenpeace vessels by the French defies international convention. ALNASHIR D. WALJI Nairobi...
...comforts of home did not do much for Harvard. The first game yesterday was excruciatingly close, but to no avail for the Crimson faithful...
...that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week. "We're big in Canada and we're strong in the U.S. Other than that we really have no position." The current Chrysler management might well ask who exactly...
...Caron's plaid suit from Gigi and Clark Gable's uniform from the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. "I just started buying on an emotional level," she says. "But after I had bought all this stuff, it struck me: Wouldn't everybody love to see this?" For years, without avail, she tried to interest moguls in financing a movie museum in Hollywood. Then she rolled sevens in Vegas...
...light of a candle, he found several bulging portfolios of drawings and watercolors. Their names leaped out at him: Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Amazed at the discovery, Baldin begged his officers for transport space to carry this abandoned trove back to the Soviet Union-to no avail. There was no room on the trucks, and the brigade was pulling out in the morning...