Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrations, and there were none last week. Still, Malraux has reached a degree of eminence at which there is universal agreement on his importance, if virtually none on his foremost achievement. Some believe that Malraux will be remembered largely for his writing. "A very great writer," says Pierre Viansson-Ponté, political editor of Le Monde. "With their backgrounds of the Far East, Spain and the French Resistance, Malraux's works are linked with life." In the political arena, Malraux receives fewer encomiums, least of all from the young. University students today read Man's Fate, Malraux...
Despite Malraux's early sympathy for militant Trotskyism, it was his relationship with Charles de Gaulle-a relationship that Le Monde's Viansson-Ponté likens to that of "sovereign and poet laureate"-that gave lasting political direction to his career. The French President considered his handsome Culture Minister "my brilliant friend" and "incomparable witness." As Malraux saw it, De Gaulle gave the French a consciousness of their own greatness...
...Pont, IBM, General Foods and thousands of other U.S. companies decorate foreign landscapes, creating jobs and contributing to the host country's prosperity...
...While Bermuda, the Bahamas and The Netherlands Antilles loudly proclaim themselves tax havens, Luxembourg has quietly become a veritable tax heaven. Unlike any other Common Market country, it imposes practically no taxes on holding companies. Luxembourg now has more such enterprises (2,300) than it has soldiers (550). Du Pont, Uniroyal, Olivetti, Amo- co and other multinational giants have set up holding companies there and pay dividends and interest to them, taxfree. The holding companies then use the money to finance parent-company operations in other countries. Luxembourg is also a favorite neutral meeting ground for partners in joint ventures...
...keenly disappointed," said an official at Shell Oil, which had proposed a $100 million littoral refinery. "We're particularly sorry to see that emotionalism was permitted to obscure the fact that we are capable of building a clean refinery." But Peterson, himself a former Du Pont executive, has become convinced that performance controls "are not an effective enough safeguard" against pollution; he especially fears for the state's handsome beaches which now support a thriving tourist business. Besides, the Governor warned, a massive influx of industrial workers "could build population pressure that would create more problems than...