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...true today as it always was. In spite of all this, the American attitude remains unique. Throughout history, exile has been a calamity; America turned it into a triumph and placed its immigrants in the center of a national epic. It is still symbolized by that old copper-plated cliche, the Statue of Liberty, notwithstanding the condescension and the awful poetry of the famous Emma Lazarus lines ("the wretched refuse of your teeming shore...
Simon Daughert, a local eleven-year-old with copper hair and a bespectacled, scholarly expression, allowed that he had been known to fly a plane or two in the classroom, and that he was skipping school to watch the Friday morning finale of the paper-plane contest. "I was going to be a chemist," he said wistfully, "but seeing all these neat designs is making me think about aerospace...
...when he says he is for social justice for all." Sankara believes his goal of "two meals a day and safe drinking water" for all of Burkina Faso's people can be achieved. The main hope for economic development lies in the exploitation of natural resources, which include gold, copper and diamonds. One instance of Sankara's example-setting parsimony: when the electrical system at the presidential residence needed repairing, he paid for the work by selling the contents of the well-stocked wine cellar accumulated by his predecessors...
...unveiled a sweeping reorganization program. The Los Angeles-based concern (1984 sales: $25 billion) announced that it will shed all its refining and marketing operations east of the Mississippi, including 1,100 gas stations. The company also intends to pare down spending on exploration by 50% and abandon its copper and molybdenum businesses. More dramatically, ARCO's board of directors voted to increase significantly the firm's long-term borrowing. As a result, total indebtedness could reach more than 50% of the company's net worth. With the additional funds, ARCO plans to buy back...
...writing instruments. Its handmade black lacquer pen went from $160 to $125. By discounting at a time when few other importers are doing so, the company hopes to boost its U.S. market share. Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco's chic pot-and- pan retailer, has marked down its French-made copper cookware...