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...Frontal Attack. Superficially, BSN's attempt looked absurd. Saint-Gobain produces 22% of the world's plate glass, has extensive interests in chemicals, nuclear energy, cardboard and paper. The company has annual sales of glass and other products totaling $1 billion, almost five times BSN's. But Saint-Gobain's current reputation glitters less than its history. Under the presidency of Count Arnaud de Vogüé, 64, the company lagged behind BSN in adopting the float-glass process that revolutionized glassmaking a decade ago. On the other hand, BSN, which was formed when two firms...
...upon the Russian scene a decade ago. He was young, handsome and engaging. His luminous love lyrics signaled the new kind of poetry that was possible after the death of Stalin. Babi Yar was a courageous, impassioned protest against Russian antiSemitism. In The Heirs of Stalin, he made a frontal attack on Stalinists still active among the Soviet leadership. Soon Evtushenko commanded a vast following in Russia among people long weary of the dreary cant and moralizing themes of earlier Soviet literature...
Found and Lost. Sharp-tongued and harder-hitting, Beard shattered the myth of America's perfect past by a frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter...
...welfare rights is obviously a stop-gap approach, and SRRP director Don Jelinek was trying for a frontal attack on the welfare and food systems. His aim was to change programs like Commodities and Food Stamps into realistic plans based on the rural families' needs, and not on the needs of the Agriculture Department...
...Boylan brothers, John, 26, and Terence, 21, lack a sense of humor. This cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning. A country corn put-on called I Been Spending Too Much Money at the Fair is a hilarious frontal attack on the Nashville sound...