Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Teng and Jimmy Carter stand to gain from the state visit. Both hope that their summit talks will enhance their political prestige at home, shore up support for the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, and pacify domestic critics of the two countries' dramatic new directions in foreign policy...
Oddly, the country that may have most to gain from Iran's political crisis has been the first to be hurt by its oilfield chaos. For weeks hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis in the mountainous country north of Iran's border with the Soviet Union have been shivering through an experience reminiscent of the American Midwest in recent winters: icy temperatures and no natural...
...among her colleagues. One reason: they run counter to a central doctrine of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex. In Bloch's reworking of that Freudian gospel, the kids are attracted to a parent, not out of the incestuous impulses postulated by Freud, but as a sexual strategy to gain control over a threatening parent. One needs only to return to the original Greek myth for proof of her infanticide theory, says Bloch. Unfortunately, she adds, the master apparently missed the key point: the young Oedipus himself narrowly escaped death at the hands of his father...
...typical Soviet youth. It is often impossible to contact the young. It is often dangerous. The Soviet student is in a dangerous position. If he is involved in any political activity, he is expelled from the Institute and nobody can help him. And it is not that easy to gain entrance to the university. There is much discrimination. Many students from the country cannot attend the university. Take Moscow University, for example. The percentage of people from the villages who go there is one half of one per cent. The students are mainly from Moscow. It is the same...
...students just seem eager to get a U.S. degree. Of the Japanese, John O. Heise, director of the University of Michigan's International Center, observes: "They view their American education as an exportable commodity. They come, they buy it, and they take it away." And American students often gain valuable international contacts. Take the University of Texas, for instance, where many of the 2,000 foreign students are studying petroleum engineering. When it sponsored an alumni conference on energy a couple of years ago, one 1947 grad came a long way back: Sheik Abdullah Tariki, a former Petroleum Minister...