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...would seem to me, therefore, that the "con job" that is being pulled is not by the Southwestern Company on unsuspecting Harvard undergraduates, but, to this contrary, by the press and university administration on the Company and on students looking for a legitimate, challenging summer job. By restricting recruiting and whitewashing the Company whenever the opportunity presents itself, the administration and media have made it extremely difficult for undergraduates to find out about the program at all, much less get an objective picture of it. Under such conditions, how can a student who might genuinely be interested in participating...
Cawley said at first the work "seemed like the world's oldest con job," and that he still has "too many doubts to commit myself...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...sophisticated technology multiplies the opportunities for theft. Warns Philip Wynn, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County: "Computer crime is an extremely serious problem. I see it as a monster." No one knows exactly how much computer con men are raking in, but the numbers are big. Federal officials say that the average loss in a bank robbery is $3,200. A typical nonelectronic embezzlement comes to $23,500. But the average computer fraud...
...losing side in the civil war. Thus the mood in Paris now was one of embarrassment as well as consternation. As it happened, the announced merger came only a day after Libyan officials revealed that they had signed a long-term contract with Elf Aquitaine, France's state-con trolled oil company, for exploration rights covering about 6,000 sq. mi. of Libya's oil fields. It was obviously a strange thing for France to do: strike an oil deal with hostile Libya at the very time that it was encroaching on friendly Chad...