Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their target is what they call "unbridled corporate power" in America. According to Fonda and Hayden, multinational corporations neglect the public interest in their rush for profits. Their prime example is nuclear power, which they urge be phased out and replaced with Government-subsidized solar energy. Says Fonda, with a catchy show-biz zinger: "It is time to look at crime in the suites, not just in the streets." Protests Hayden: "While we may have democracy in the political arena, we certainly don't in the economic one, where a board of directors has dictatorial powers." Fonda and Hayden...
...past the Faculty has paid directly for the administration of these programs out of its non-restricted income. Endowment money would free the unrestricted funds for other purposes, but Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, say the interest on the $5 million will only pay for a quarter of the total cost of non-departmental programs. "It's more of a footstool than a chair," Collier says...
...United States, Tsongas said, "is in for some rough sledding" in Africa until it sees the continent in terms of the interest of Africans, not in terms of the "geopolitical interest...
...AUTHOR of The Rivalry had tried to depict the personal relationship of Lincoln and Douglas in his dialogue, the play might have more interest. Unfortunately, the dialogue fails to explore the characters of the two men, relying on texts of the debates to do so. As a result, The Rivalry remains nothing more than a tired rehash of textbook history. Abe Lincoln deserves better...
...Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass) told a seminar sponsored by the Council for African Studies yesterday that an American foreign policy modeled after the interests of Africans would ensure the self-interest of the United States...