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Third, and this is related to the first two points, there is a greater awareness now that the countries and peoples of the East, the West, the North and the South -- however different their social systems and levels of development, and however dissimilar their cultures, beliefs and ideologies -- are parts of a single world and have basic, vital interests in common. These elements of unity and this new social self-awareness form the foundation on which modern world politics should be built. And this is already happening...
...last year, the domestic company's portion of the U.S. car market fell from 46% to 35% during the same period. Why the sharp disparity in performance? A close look reveals that the two sides of GM are organized differently, are pursuing divergent strategies and are characterized by utterly dissimilar cultures. GM Europe's success, in fact, speaks volumes about the ills of the domestic company and may suggest ways to halt its alarming slide...
...Jones adds, the situation is "not dissimilar from where the state of Massachusetts is now in terms of available resources...
...critically acclaimed novella. He is also the younger brother of Geoffrey Wolff, whose own memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979), introduced tens of thousands of readers to the bizarre saga of the Wolff family. Although these two narratives have kinship and blood in common, they spring from dissimilar circumstances. The parents split up when the brothers were young. Geoffrey stayed east with his flamboyantly fraudulent father; Tobias drifted west with his mother, a lively woman who, the son writes, suffered from a "strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed...
Folk traditions of quite another, although not dissimilar, sort animate a second fluky hit, The Gipsy Kings. The record, sung in a Gypsyfied merging of Spanish and French, sold well over a million copies in Europe and interested the intrepid Elektra in a U.S. release. All members of the same family, the Gipsy Kings make up a jolly band that combines the sly funk of salsa and the brio of flamenco with some of the blowout intensity of rock. The band does have mainstream appeal. The "adult contemporary" step-uncle of MTV, VH-1, recently chose the Kings' video...