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...package. But already executives and investors are sizing up which industries and companies will be most helped or hurt. The potential losers-some oil producers, automakers and utilities among them-are openly annoyed. The prospective winners, a diverse group including some industries that have drawn little investment attention, are loath to crow about benefiting from a plan that the President presented in terms of stern sacrifice; privately, they are delighted...
...scholarship is the ease with which it draws on the materials of a variety of disciplines--not in order to reduce literature to their domains but rather to reinforce its integrity. Although Frye rejects his role as the founder of a school of "myth criticism," he is not loath to characterize himself as a pioneer. "I think I have found a trial," he writes in "Expanding Eyes," "and all I can do is to keep sniffing along it until either scent or nose fails me." Spiritus Mundi is sufficient proof that both are still happily intact...
...short of expectations, and indeed as the one-sided nature of the peace required ever greater efforts to maintain it against countries with no stake in the settlement. A tide of isolationist sentiment rose, in which moral proclamations were coupled with an unwillingness to undertake concrete commitments. We were loath to face a world of imperfect security, alliances of convenience, recurrent crises and the need for a political structure that would secure the peace...
...Stygian matron, nothing loath...
Willing Workers. The strongest draw is the region's willing workers, who, in general, still respect authority, and, out of fear or conviction, are loath to join unions (see story on page 75). Says Yardley President William Hunt, who moved the cosmetic firm's headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta in July: "Our employees here seem genuinely glad to have...