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...Nixon-Kissinger objective has therefore been to shift the focus of revolutionary regimes round the world from ideology to issues of national interest. Both men are turning the criteria of decision making from what some Europeans cynically call "the savior attitude" to the equations of Realpolitik, implicitly abandoning the moralistic considerations that have dominated American foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson. "The world is becoming less ideological," says British Political Scientist Frederick Northedge, "and more concerned with survival...
...receiving virtually any of his people who call on him) when he should have been concentrating more on serious matters of state. If, as expected, he is elected in March, Mujib will face a clear test of whether he is not only the father of Bangladesh but also its savior...
Though Knudsen is a somewhat racy personality by the standards of Cleveland's business establishment (he is noted for wearing aviator glasses and ankle boots), he was eagerly greeted as a potential savior. Indeed, by last week, as truck manufacturers were finishing their best year ever, Knudsen had done much to turn White around. It moved from a loss of $5.6 million in the third quarter of 1971 to a profit of $1.1 million on sales of $226 million in the equivalent period of 1972. To break into the black, Knudsen has had to remake the company...
...Detroit auto worker, Vesco appeared on the financial scene out of nowhere in 1965 to create by merger International Controls Corp., a New Jersey electric equipment company, which he once said he had built "on financial agility." He entered IOS in 1970 in the role of savior, arranging a desperately needed $10 million loan and later becoming chairman. Soon, though, the SEC charged, Vesco began acting as despoiler. His "brazen" scheme, according to the agency, unfolded in three steps...
Like their predecessors, the new immigrants perceive the true goddess of America, Technology, not as villain but as savior. The factory, however sordid or boring, has legally limited hours and, customarily, provides a string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration...