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...junta in Chile on the theory that authoritarian governments are "better" than totalitarian ones--that, right-wing rulers are less pervasively repressive than those of the left, more culturally tolerant, less ideological, more amenable to corporate interests, and more susceptible to change. Therefore, the argument continues, to prop up right-wing repressive governments not only protects American interests--in Chile, that means ITT--but also prevents the country from going Red, presumably foreclosing any future hope of democracy...
...money, manners, fashion and family tree, severe in its standards of social acceptability and brutal in its treatment of those deemed unfit. Bond's adaptation of the genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his rich, social-climbing bride, decides to prop her up at the table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing is not made more impressive by being said...
Independent--Executive Editor, Big Sister (One to One Program. Phillips Brooks House). Harvard Band Prop crew...
Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society, WHRB News Dept., Harvard Marching Band prop crew...
...exceeding their OPEC-decreed production quotas. As a result, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd directed Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Oil Minister, to deliver an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC. The King's blunt message: Saudi Arabia, which has been holding oil exports under its quota to help prop up prices, would not keep on curbing sales if other OPEC members continued to cheat...