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...entering a resource-oriented era, in which the companies that control resources, or have the capital and technology to develop them, will prosper. Similarly, the nations that possess those resources will dominate-economically and politically...
...pesticides and herbicides. To help make the wildlife preserve even more flourishing, the South Korean government allocates some of its $400,000-a-year conservation budget for grain, which is spread by South Korean soldiers along their side of the DMZ. As a result, birds especially have come to prosper in the DMZ. In winter, members of the Korean Council for Bird Preservation like nothing better than to stalk the southern edge of the zone in hopes of catching glimpses of two particularly treasured species. One of them is the Japanese ibis, a long-necked, crimson and white bird that...
...himself and has spent half that time in debt. Warren G. Bovée, acting dean of the Marquette University journalism school, once calculated that some 25,000 citizens call themselves freelancers but fewer than 300 make a living at it. Says Talese: "There is no way you can prosper writing for magazines alone...
...truly invidious spirit of big business. In the past, the average newspaper or magazine did not share the considerations foremost in the thinking of a large corporation. A publication was obliged to consider sales and profits for purposes of economic viability, so that it might continue to publish and prosper in more than financial aims. The desire to increase profit for profit's sake, to expand, to consolidate, to dominate in a corporate fashion was basically alien to the press and its historical function of news dissemination. It is a subtle and very essential distinction between the press conceived...
...undeniable fact that homesteaders are living at the site, the government insists that the pioneer families are only an "archaeological delegation." Begin has refused to authorize any settlement at Shiloh, but at the same time the families there have been encouraged to believe that if they survive and prosper on their own, they may eventually win Jerusalem's approval. The government's neither-nor position has sparked bitter debates within Begin's Likud coalition between antisettlement pragmatists and nationalistic conservatives who support the community and who even attended Shiloh's dedication ceremonies...