Word: raymonds
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...companies the Dresser Corporation and Numont Mining Corporation-that conduct business in south Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favour divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement. "Says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer request for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles formulated in March...
...hotels bear names out of the vanished past of a Raymond Chandler novel: the Palms-Wilshire, the Californian, the Barbizon. But in the once tony Wilshire-Alvarado district of Los Angeles, a swath of wide streets and pink stucco apartment buildings five minutes from downtown, the elegance is gone. There, amid broken glass, dank, urine-stained hallways, and discount shops, live more than 1,000 Marielitos, many sporting the telltale tattoos that mark them as former prisoners in Cuban jails. Squalid $8 rooms serve as base camps for drug dealers, prostitutes and holdup gangs. Nearby MacArthur Park, once a palm...
...business in South Africa, students and officials alike stress that debate on South Africa policy is conducted entirely by members of the Williams community. "I believe that the students who favor divesting from South Africa do so because of their own beliefs entirely, there is no outside involvement," says Raymond C. Blyer, public information director for the college. Williams is divesting from the two corporations because they did not answer requests for statements of compliance with the Sullivan Principles, a minimum set of fair labor practice guidelines formulated in March...
...turnabout is attributed to several factors: the agency's director Raymond Peck departed; a new and aggressive Transportation Secretary, Elizabeth Dole, took office last February; and the 1984 election is approaching...
...they now find it awkward to have changed their position. French rightists also find themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists and left-wing Socialists. After all, said...