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...issue in the forthcoming Canadian election campaign. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may well beat them because he has taken aim at an unpopular form of investment. Takeovers, mostly by U.S. firms, account for only 17% of the flow of foreign investment money into Canada, but they are especially noxious to many Canadians because they do nothing directly to expand production or jobs but only transfer ownership to outsiders. Whatever happens in the next election, it would be a grave mistake for U.S. executives to underestimate the deep worry that their operations north of the border cause among many Canadians...
Peckinpah could have made a great film if he worked as broad a canvas as he's used to. He clearly feels that both the church and an amorphous state represent attempts only at making problems more palatable. Their representatives here are a noxious minister and an ineffectual sheriff, both of whom accomodate violent types into their closed systems, without giving them any alternatives to their conduct but supernatural imagery and good manners. But this point of view doesn't hold water by itself, even in a film whose director only films what he believes. We must know more...
More than a decade ago, it became clear that the booming West and Southwest would soon need far more electric power. But people in Phoenix or Los Angeles did not want to live next door to generating plants that spew soot and noxious gases, discharge hot water and spawn unsightly transmission lines. As a result, the area's electric utilities decided to build new plants as far away from people as possible-in the desert shared by Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Eventually, a consortium of 23 public and private organizations in seven states were involved in planning...
Insects are among nature's most successful experts at chemical warfare. To protect themselves against enemies, they secrete many irritating substances. Certain grasshoppers and butterflies, for example, fight their foes with toxins that they accumulate by munching on milkweed plants. Moths pick up noxious alkaloids from other plants. Now it appears that some insects have gone one step further. They have managed to incorporate into their arsenal a chemical made...
Muskie took some time to unravel Fuller's visionary verse. But last week he replied in the Times with 44 lines of his own bad poetry. After reeling off a few contemporary images-"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"-he got to Fuller's Maine point...