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...Enders Plan, conceived by Thomas Enders, an Assistant Secretary of State, would prop domestic oil prices at high levels even after foreign prices recede. Purpose: to stem any rush back to cheap oil, continue pressure for development of alternate energy sources and shield against any future Arab oil embargo...
...what lies outside of war that makes a masterpiece of the Iliad, and makes this translation a fitting companion to Fitzgerald's justly celebrated Odyssey. Two cities decorate the shield of Achilles, newly forged for the climactic duel with Hector, champion of the Trojans. One city is at war, its walls besieged like Troy's. The second city is at peace. In the margins of Fitzgerald's Iliad, this second city keeps peeping through, full of tender wives, proud fathers, grazing cattle, freshly plowed fields, fruitful vineyards and (see the comparative samples in box) boys and girls...
...workers like second-class citizens, unworthy even of the minimal respect workers get in industry or business. Its status as a university does not change its status as a major employer and corporation. Sooner or later the University will have to stop using its academic functions as a convenient shield against the intrusions of real-world responsibilities, and give its employees the pay and respect they deserve...
...report is equally trenchant on other Latin American matters. It contends that U.S. insistence on perpetual control of the Panama Canal jeopardizes its interests more than it protects them. It also urges formulation of foreign investment codes that would at once protect underdeveloped countries from exploitation and shield investors from arbitrary expropriation. In matters involving the OAS, the study recommends that "the U.S. should be guided primarily by Latin American initiatives," which is precisely the role that the U.S. will be playing in Quito...
...share her polite confusion. Why did Pirandello bother with this slight and static play? At most, it deserves a quick reading before dinner, as a contrast to his mature work. We are shown deception, but are not rewarded with a shield for our weakness; only with a few thousand lire and unspecified sexual remuneration...