Word: groups
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...holds out hope that Prince Sihanouk willd be able to control the Khmer Rouge and effectively lead a democratic government in Phnom Penh. But the fact that he chooses to ally himself with a guerrilla group repulsive to the majority of Cambodians does not speak will of his political judgment. While Prince Sihanouk argues that the Khmer Rouge will continue fighting their guerilla war unless they are given some say in governing Cambodia, that hardly justifies negotiating with mass murderers...
SPOA Co-Chair John F. Natale said that his group resents what it sees as "one-sided" activities by Students for Public Interest Law (SPIL) in cases before the city's Rent Control Board. SPIL, a part of the Law School's clinical studies program, provides free legal aid to tenants in many cases but does not represent landlords...
...divestitures. When a foreign business attempts a long- distance marriage with a U.S. company, the obstacles to success rise even higher. One problem is the ambivalence of U.S. workers toward their foreign bosses. More than 75% of U.S. adults surveyed in a poll conducted last spring for a group of Japanese firms agreed that foreign acquisitions have boosted U.S. economic growth, employment and competitiveness. Nonetheless, nearly 75% viewed the increased foreign presence as undesirable...
...Sony is only one of the foreign investors rushing to claim a stake in Hollywood. In the past year, Britain's Television South bought MTM Enterprises, Australia's Qintex Group reached an agreement to take over MGM/ UA, and Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti acquired control of Hollywood's struggling Cannon Group, an action-picture mill...
...which opened last week. The production, by Sir Peter Hall, former artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and Britain's National Theater, was a hit in London in December. Yet it took a risky struggle to transfer the show. Redgrave is a fervid member of a radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much of her income into its causes and four times stood as a candidate for Parliament representing the Workers' Revolutionary Party. That commitment helps explain why she has endured for more than a decade an unannounced but unmistakable boycott by much...