Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editors: It is disillusioning to realize that a majority of the American public never objected to wasting $150 billion killing off Asians they did not know, in a war they did not understand, but now react violently to spending a few hundred million to save the lives of some of that war's victims. Any amount for death but not one cent for life, right...
Murphy said the institutions would save money by building the plant and not using Boston Edison, but only if they received tax exempt status from the City of Boston for the plant...
France managed to save some face and preserve an image of national ownership. It will own 17% of Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique "CII-Honeywell Bull." The deal also commits Honeywell to sell 19% of its interest in Honeywell Bull to the French government and CGE for "about" $60 million. Eventually, 53% of Honeywell Bull stock will be in French hands, but Honeywell, with its resources and familiarity with the U.S. market, will remain the dominant partner. Beyond that, the French government will endow the company with slightly less than $300 million -mainly in the form of research contracts...
...powered car. The Arabs are out to stop him before he sells his process to General Motors, thus weaning the West away from its petroleum habit. When all seems lost, one of the bad Arabs reveals himself to be a good Arab, determined to make peace with Israel and save the GM third-quarter profits. Some of the figures in this fantasy-notably an ancient tyrant in French Intelligence-are worth a smile...
...anything meaningful about the occupation by treating the attempt of one well-intentioned individual to intervene. Does he want to argue that if all Frenchmen had behaved like Paul, then the deportation could never have taken place? Or does he want to show that Paul's failure to save anyone indicates the futility of his action? Both positions are implied in the film and both, perhaps, are partially valid, but to consider the issue in these terms is misleading. The sources of collaboration and resistance must be sought in a perspective which transcends the level of purely individual motivations...