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...Werner Erhardt figure who is a kind of camp follower cum guru, but in the end he is just abrasive. In fairness to Ritchie, the great part of the movie that involves Merrick and his est-parody probably had to be inserted quickly as the NFL refused to lend much assistance to his movie. Semi-Tough the novel never contained much actual football in the first place, Semi-Tough the movie even less, because only Joe Robbie of the Miami Dolphins would cooperate with the production...
...Morrow does not seem to remember the famine during the early years and the food and supplies that were sent, primarily due to the efforts of Herbert Hoover. He has forgotten that foreign capitalists and corporations have been involved in the industrialization of Russia. He does not even recall Lend-Lease...
...Koerner, managing director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: "Borrowers can easily get $150 million and even $200 million for up to 20 years-terms that would be difficult in Europe." There, he explains, lenders do not have as much capital to advance and are reluctant to commit what they can lend for long periods on fixed interest rates. They fear that rampant inflation will make a rate that looks attractive now unfavorable in a decade or so. For American lenders, the advantage of buying the Yankee bonds is simple: they collect more interest. Foreign borrowers pay .5% to 1% more than...
MONTAIGNE once commented that the clever are usually the least reliable observers of curious customs and events. They interpret them and, "to lend weight and conviction to their interpretations, they cannot help altering history a little," he said. This observation, made in 16th century France, applies all too well to the most recent work of cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings. This exposition of how the varieties of cultural behavior can be explained as adaptations to ecological conditions is unquestionably the product of an exceedingly clever brain...
...proposals urge the Corporation to sell all stock it owns in commercial banks that lend to the South African government. The SASC also asked the Corporation to support or sponsor a shareholder resolution that would curtail companies' operation in South Africa...