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...could not have guessed, from the outward appearances, that the man sitting next to me would exert more of an influence on my mind than would any of my professors at Harvard, Wearing a rumpled suit and an ancient straw hot, he looked the a typical racetrack bum. But when I caught a glimpse of the Reading Form he was studying so intensely, I got a different impression...
...weapons-producing states also oppose controls. The Soviet Union and the U.S. are not about to give up the most efficient way they can exert power and influence. For all industrial states, weapons sales, like any other exports, mean jobs. Thus when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was criticized in 1969 for selling arms to the U.S. that were eventually used in Viet Nam, he defended himself by pleading that it was a choice between "dirty hands and empty bellies...
Quite legitimately, American manufacturers often attempt to trump foreign rivals by pointing out that U.S. products have been battle-tested in Viet Nam or the Middle East. The French, however, consistently exert the most impressive sales efforts. To complete a sale of Mirages to Australia, Marcel Dassault arrived accompanied by French military officials and a senior director of the Bank of France; later a bevy of French film stars were flown...
AMERICA'S LONG-LASTING marriage to the automobile, and the heavy dependence of the national economy on petroleum, has given birth to an international oil industry that has been able to exert an overpowering influence over its parents. The overgrown offspring is a quasi-autonomous international cartel that often gives it own interests priority over those of its mother country. Abuse of the economic and political power by the oil companies was not the sole cause of the recent quadrupling of world oil prices, but the industry has moved to suppress the entry market. The discouragement of synthetic fuel research...
...reflection of the racial composition of the membership. Through the union, the unorganized are organizing themselves to challenge the entrenched interests of agribusiness, which has put down all labor movement in the past. The changes introduced by the union are allowing more and more workers to exert control over their working conditions...