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...greatest threat comes from corporations bent on increasing profits no matter what the costs," said Dr. Jean Kilbourne, a film producer and writer who sits on the board of directors of the National Council on Alcoholism. The alcohol industry takes in $65 billion in revenue each year and spends $1 billion in advertising, she said...
...graffiti, which included swastikas and insulting remarks about the police, appeared to be the work of "local youths bent on vandalism and using graffiti and vandalism for shock-effect," said Lt. Donald C. Whalen of the Wellesley Police...
...foreign power. In its anti-Vietnamese zeal, Washington overlooked Sihanouk's alliance with the Khmer Rouge, which did most of the fighting during eleven years of guerrilla opposition. The Bush Administration is left in the uncomfortable position of backing a mercurial prince who remains aligned with men bent on restoring an odious regime. But the Administration maintains, with good reason, that any settlement that ignores the Khmer Rouge is a formula for civil...
...There's no point in getting bent out of shape over one project," said R. Phillip Dowds, a member of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...helped spur the Continent's economies. But self-help played a major role as well. With one eye on the impact of the Reagan Revolution in the U.S., the area's governments reduced taxes, scissored red tape and encouraged investment. A new breed of hard-driving Euroentrepreneurs has emerged, bent not only on streamlining the Continent's industries but also on spearheading a European invasion of corporate America. Last year British raiders alone spent $32 billion on U.S. companies, compared with $12.7 billion by the Japanese...