Word: fears
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These are impressive figures, but there are shortcomings. The U.S. still underwrites an annual trade deficit that has ranged from $70 to $90 million, and U.S. advisers fear that this will continue until the Nationalist government provides new incentives for investment in export industries. Private U.S. investors have put only $54 million into Formosa, partly because they object to the terms of Formosa's foreign-investment law, partly because of sad experience with the widespread "squeeze" system, through which some Formosan officials almost seem determined to run foreign businesses out of the country, not bring them...
...French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning to fear. The hundreds of English teachers he seeks, the new radio transmitter he wants as replacement for Conakry's present peanut whistle, the capital he needs for hydroelectric development, all could come from the West...
...story about the Rembrandt that Aunt Sophie found in a pushcart usually comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing worthless pictures as possible masterpieces...
Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...
...week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, and a book by Erich Fromm. He was vastly impressed by Gertrude Stein's fear, at the age of fifteen, that soon she would have no more books to read...