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...reassurance that Conable's presence may bestow, the World Bank's new priorities involve undeniable risks. One threat is to the benign image of the bank. By tying loans to policy improvements, the World Bank will almost inevitably be tarred in the domestic debates of debtor nations. In just that fashion, the IMF has now become one of the prime bogeymen of Third World politics because of its program of enforced austerity. Warns James Conrow, a Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary: "The World Bank is going to get hit with charges of political insensitivity, just like...
What remains of the monarchist dream in Disney World is a benign dictatorship of style, a triumph of art over nature. The lightning bugs in the shrubbery by Cinderella's Castle are tiny synchronized bulbs. In a 3-D short called Magic Journeys (to be replaced this September with a Michael Jackson film, Captain Eo), a boy blows milkweed toward the audience, and 586 viewers shiver with delight. There is more magic that the customers never see. A Swedish pneumatic garbage system moves 50 tons of discarded glop a day. The costume room holds l.5 million items of clothing (eight...
...display such sympathies in the Depression made management look benign. When Edsel Ford wanted to celebrate the Rouge complex and the auto industry, he got Rivera to paint a mural cycle in Detroit; it attracted 86,000 visitors in its first month. Rivera had no problems in casting American engineers as the heroes of a new age. Encouraged by this, John D. Rockefeller in 1932 commissioned a Rivera mural, Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future, for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Rivera put in a head...
...truly saddens me that during the past five years, we have collectively witnessed this "great communicator" utilize (and exploit) media technology to his advantage and to the nation's spiritual and ethical demise. Lebanon, Grenada, Nicaragua, favorable tax status to racist schools like Bob Jones University and a benign neglect for those social, medical and cultural programs which serve as the benchmark of a just, compassionate and enlightened society come to mind when I read of President Reagan's refusal to speak at the Harvard festivities. It is ironic that Charles, the Prince of Wales, should be appearing at this...
...pathogenic and the other isn't." By identifying which component of the AIDS virus is responsible for its deadly effects, researchers may be able to develop new drugs that specifically inhibit it. They may also be able to alter the virus genetically to remove its harmful traits, leaving a benign version that could serve as a vaccine...