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...watches. By some accounts, French smugglers are into something far more complex. It is said that the SDECE, France's CIA, has quietly engaged Paris-and Marseille-based smugglers to move arms to a number of Middle East countries. These secret arms shipments are said to enable France to bolster its export arms industry and its influence in the Middle East, while it continues...
...wording of such documents could easily be stored in the memory bank of the computer part of the system and reproduced instantly on the copier part whenever necessary. Whichever company wins the research battle to develop the system will thus get first shot at enough new business to bolster its accustomed huge sales and profit gains far into the future...
Selective evidence is the device Fiedler uses to make his case, and some of it is weirdly selective. He brushes aside Cleopatra, Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable...
...program is a mix of populist palliatives and sensible economic reforms. Allende promised to double chicken production to 100 million birds a year by 1975 and build a new sugar refinery as well as two milk-bottling plants. More significantly, he promised that the government would bolster Chile's sagging economy with the help of $400 million in loans from Communist countries. In all, Allende plans to inject more than $760 million into Chile's economy and agriculture...
...abruptly shucked its year-old policy of "benign neglect" of American currency abroad last week. It did so by permitting the Federal Reserve Board to go into the international money market to help raise the value of the dollar, and by serving notice that it would bolster its currency against further devaluation. This complex maneuver signaled a timely break with former Treasury Secretary John Connally's hard line of economic nationalism and a step by the U.S. toward greater cooperation with its trading partners in seeking to ease world money problems...