Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting Out of the Women's Room--Marilyn French, professor of English, Holy Cross College, Science Center...
...corporate withdrawal most likely to minimize loss to the parent company and maximize loss to the South African economy is the prohibition of all new investment coupled with the full repatriation of current earnings from existing operations, viz., allowing the South African affiliate to depreciate, or, in plain English, "run into the ground." Without new infusions of capital, either in the form of new investment or retained earnings, plants and equipment rapidly lose their economic value and become obsolete. Naturally, the tax code makes provision for the deprecation of assets, permitting the parent company to "write off," so to speak...
...that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press and allowed a national scandal to go virtually unreported for a decade...
...England, that is. In 1974 the Sunday Times took its case to the 25-year-old European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it would have been absurd not to. Almost all the Thalidomide litigation was settled, leaving little to be prejudiced by the press. The dam finally broke: in 1976, the Sunday Times was allowed to print for the first time a story that explicitly discussed Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission...
Sevcenko said language problems may prevent Moroz from teaching until his English improves, but noted that he might contribute to several seminars that have been taught in Ukrainian...