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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldman does not yet have Brooks' sure ability to touch and goofily transform each and every cliche base on which his chosen model rests. Around the middle of this picture, energy flags and a sort of desperate silliness begins...
...When doctors hear about me, they wonder if they have chosen the right course," says Doctor-Turned-Businessman Armand Hammer. The celebrated 79-year-old Russophile and art collector is the chairman of Occidental Petroleum. He graduated from Columbia Medical School 56 years ago, but has never practiced medicine. While still a medical student, Hammer made his first million selling Pharmaceuticals. Later he worked in the Soviet Union, eventually building up a rich import-export business with the Soviets. At 59, he took over Occidental. Figuring that he would recycle some oil money into his original profession, Hammer last week...
Jorgenson, 44, argues that the explosive rise in world oil prices has wrought a fundamental change in the U.S. economy-one that bodes well for jobs but holds out dim long-term prospects for curbing inflation or boosting growth. Traditionally, says Jorgenson, businessmen faced with investment decisions have chosen to emphasize spending on machines and other capital equipment over manpower because capital was always 1) cheaper to use than labor and 2) more productive. But machinery burns energy, and thus the quadrupling of oil prices by OPEC since 1973 has sent the cost of using capital through the roof, while...
...terms, sex is the central game in life, and the aim of all players is to get as many genes as possible into the next generation, at the lowest cost. Some of the best low-cost players are female fish, which deposit their unfertilized eggs in front of a chosen male. Then, while he is inseminating the eggs, they flee, leaving the poor male to protect his genetic investment by nurturing the young himself...
...parts that Begin knows best are the countless verses of the Old Testament that refer to the existence of Erets Yisrael (the land of Israel) and to God's promise of a homeland for his chosen people. But Scripture is less precise about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto...