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...imports in Southern Europe. There is not even pan-European agreement on what constitutes quality. A T shirt made from a cotton-polyester blend may suit a British shopper, but French and German consumers want 100% cotton T shirts only, please. Licensing executive Gianfranco Mari, head of the agency DIC 2 in Milan, underlines that "what sells in Italy may not sell in France." Then there is the tangle of various legal requirements and trademark laws in each nation, which the European Union has not exterminated. "Those laws can keep the lawyers happy for years," says Jaguar's Maries...
...logic of one of Temple's major premises. He invokes the belief of such sympathetic star trackers as Astronomer Carl Sagan and Astro physicist I.S. Shklovski'ï that intelligent life probably exists elsewhere in our galaxy. Out of billions of planets, so the argument goes, statistical probability dic tates that there must be some that have evolved like earth. But Temple seems confused about probability. "The odds against life occurring fairly frequently within our galaxy are impossible ones," he writes. In fact, odds must be long, short or even-never impossible. The truly daring position-not often considered...
...problem is to write cohesive laws that will clearly define Burns' "strategic industries or enterprises." Certainly there should be no investment large enough to enable a foreigner to dic tate policy in U.S. defense industries or in transportation, tele vision networks and other communications industries. The problem for Congress is to meld somehow the interests of OPEC investors and the American desire to maintain unquestioned di rection of sensitive industries...
...four Crimson slopemen-Alpine captain Larry Carter, No?dic captain Steve Hinkle, John Boyle, and Chris Ferner-will not compete as a team...
...apologies to music director John Miner and his orchestra. While a polysyllabic evaluation of their performance is quite beyond me, I was able to notice that tempos seemed quite spirited, the audience seemed quite appreciative, and the female timpanist was quite lovely. Dic Fledermans (in English) runs over three hours, what with everyone singing away instead of just saving things outright but no one-singers, musicians, or audience-appears to tire along...