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...Centrists, meanwhile, have been criticized by their key constituencies?conservative Catholics of the north, businessmen and private landholders?for following the Socialist line. The C.D.S. was forced, in effect, to make its move against Soares' government in order to fend off growing competition from other political parties, notably the increasingly conservative Social Democrats controlled by Francisco Sá Carneiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: A Bird Uncaged | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

More and more, that life is revolving around Affirmed. They travel with the horse, fend off would-be buyers and curious reporters, and spend long evenings at home laying plans for his future (they intend to race him next year as a four-year-old). "It makes me remember so much," Patrice says. "My father was a great trainer and breeder, and that's what we've done with Affirmed. We bred him, raised him and raced him. And we did another thing my father used to do: the Bieber-Jacobs stable believed in running rather than training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice, Quiet Life | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Benji's real father abandons his family at some point previous to the opening of the narrative, leaving his wife, Sweets (Cicely Tyson), to fend for herself. Sweets meets Butler, who soon becomes the bread-winner for the family. Benji refuses to accept Butler as a father despite the latter's conciliatory advances. If this relationship provides the framework for comprehending the machinations of Benji's character, then the other individuals furnish the embellishment necessary to reach that understanding...

Author: By Ken Wise, | Title: Heroes Are Hard to Find | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

Certainly there are exceptions. New York City, still seeking federal aid to fend off bankruptcy, was forced last week to find money to give a raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: State of the States: Healthy | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations during the last day of hearings on the multinational's activities in Chile in 1970-71. As the 29th and final witness to appear before the five-member subcommittee, Geneen's testimony epitomized the line of defense used by the cor-poration to fend off accusations of wrongdoing and illegal interference with the orderly electora' process of what was then the leading democracy in Latin America. According to the gospel of Geneen and the ten ITT executives summoned before the subcommittee, "all that ITT did was to present its views, concerns, and ideas to various...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: The Discreet Lies of ITT | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

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