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Karl Marx was wrong about a lot, but he was right about one thing: politics is born of economics. The political stability of the new Commonwealth of Independent States will require steady, substantial infusions of cash, credits and know-how from outside...
Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "We are on the verge of either having the greatest destruction of nuclear weapons in the history of the world or the greatest proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and the scientific know-how to make these weapons." What most concerns many experts in Washington is that President Bush has dallied inexcusably in developing any strategy to use the potentially critical influence of the U.S. to push the republics in the right direction...
Along with machinery know-how and history, we get philosophy and sociology. In describing different house sidings, for example, Owen surmises upon the social implications of each one: readers can choose to be apparently rich (but not really rich) brick person, or they can settle to be "just a vinyl-siding kind...
GRANTED, the Corporation is a corporation. Harvard undoubtedly benefits from having some people with business sense at its helm to expand the endowment and make sound financial deals for the University. Corporation members' business know-how has raised the money that makes scholarships, research funds and other essential programs possible...
...metal and discovered that it represented a far more sophisticated art. Lechtman's analysis revealed that the artifacts had been gilded with an incredibly thin layer of gold using a chemical technique that achieved the quality of modern electroplating. No one had previously suspected that these Indians had the know-how to create so subtle a technology...