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...news bulletin, Trialogue, the Trilateral Commission characterizes its policies towards international relations as the "reformist approach." It believes that "expansion of the global economic pie, rather than (its) redistribution, is the most hopeful means of improving the relative economic positions of the poorer nations...
...telling the OPEC nations that they should drastically roll back the price of oil. Rather, his aim seemed to be to drive a wedge between the oil producers and the truly poor. If that was indeed the American strategy, it had little success: the oil-producing states dominated their poorer brethren in the conference's deliberations. Four commissions were set up to examine the world's economic problems-under broad headings of energy, development, raw materials and financial questions-with co-chairmen from both developed and less developed nations. OPEC members took three commissions; only one went...
Another hooker explains that each time she's thrown in the can she emerges poorer than before, and she has a son to support. "I don't even have the money to try and find a job. So when I get out, I have to turn a trick as fast as possible...
...Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before some of his poorer works...
...perils in America's future will arise out of the modern offsprings of progress, claims Macrae. The most frightening possibility is the rapid spread of atomic weapons into the hands of global terrorists. The major industrial countries must meet this predicament by improving the living standards of the poorer nations, thereby increasing the commitment of all human beings to maintaining an unwarlike status...