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...other words, "You" will look the samewhether used as a direct object or an indirectobject in a sentence, while another pronoun like"he" would change to "him" under the samecircumstances, Knowles discovered...
Brown officials do not object to a need-blind goal, but administrators and student protesters still sharply disagree over the university's ability to increase its capital campaign from $450 to $500 million...
...Intelligence Agency has determined that the sale of LTV's missile technology to the French firm poses major security problems. Thomson-CSF, aware that access to LTV's Stealth technology would never be approved, brought the Carlyle Group into the deal specifically to buy the aircraft operations. Still, critics object that Thomson-CSF is essentially buying U.S. secrets. Asks a Pentagon insider rhetorically: "Why else would Thomson buy a bankrupt LTV in a declining defense market except to get the technology...
...disproportionate share of natural resources and generating the bulk of global pollution. Many of the developing countries of the South, for their part, are consuming irreplaceable global resources -- eating the world's seed corn, as it were -- to provide for their exploding populations. And both groups have as an object lesson the now bankrupt countries of the East bloc, whose singularly inefficient path to industrialization has produced some of the worst environmental disasters the world has ever seen...
...curtain while sets were being moved behind. Zaks thinks the appeal of the storytelling is eternal and views his choice to stage the show as a period piece as merely aesthetic. But producer Landesman says, "If you wrote Guys and Dolls now, people would find it silly. Critics would object to the dramaturgy -- the ending is abrupt, and all the important character changes take place offstage. The work needs to be given a historical as well as a geographical location, and this style of production does that...