Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate future, breaking up the nation's biggest companies seems a political impossibility-not least because the American temperament will not stand for laws that seem to put limits on growth and success. Democratic Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, a leading congressional foe of monopoly, told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey: "I don't think a case has been made that we'd be better off if General Motors were broken into five separate companies." There is a genuine problem, though, in making the sometimes elephantine bureaucracy of the giant corporations responsive to the public will...
Shot in color that may have been invented by Madame Tussaud and edited with a cleaver, The Villain is acceptable only as a glimpse of procedural tradition, the English bloodhound pursuing his accursed foe. Villain Burton's voice remains one of the most distinctive and controlled in the world. But he is no longer in charge of his face. The little piggy eyes glisten and swivel in a seamed and immobile background. Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait...
...Congress. The purpose of these agreements, as the late Senator Walter George once noted, was to deter potential aggressors "from reckless conduct by a clear-cut declaration of our intentions." Often it has been shown that intentions cannot be made all that clear-resulting in misunderstanding by friend and foe alike...
Playing at number one, the Crimson's Skip Kistner tied his M. I. T. opponent, but dealt sternly with his Trinity foe, winning early in the match...
...real rule of the country falls to a "Premier-Delegate." He is Sisowath Sirik Matak, 57, the shrewd and ambitious administrator who had been virtually running Cambodia anyway as Vice Premier and Lon Nol's closest confidant. Sirik Matak is not only a cousin, but also an old foe of Sihanouk, and he is widely assumed to have been the chief architect of the plot that ousted the prince 15 months...