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...specter of a national treasure in foreign hands haunted the French last week as Swiss food conglomerate Nestle unwrapped a hostile bid to take over Source Perrier, France's bottled-water king and a company once deemed financially invulnerable. It was no solace that Italy's Agnelli group, which is bent on diversifying beyond automaker Fiat, was competing with Nestle for the rights to sell the famous little green bottles all over the world...
...seem clear in anybody's mind: just an inchoate, presumably reactionary and authoritarian group referred to ominously as "they." Explained a driver: "There will be bread riots, and that will lead to a coup. And when the coup takes place, that will lead to civil war." But the real specter is chaos. Many of St. Petersburg's citizens fear that social and political instability caused by shortages will bring bloodshed. "When you see their faces," said a member of the city council with a sigh, "they are very tense, but that is because our life itself is so tense...
...they died at the hands of their captors. That possibility, unsettling in its own right, is a far cry from the outlandish claims by some members of the MIA industry. Millions of dollars are raked in every year through mailings from organizations that plead for contributions by raising the specter of large numbers of Americans being held in secret prison camps, waiting for rescuers who are being held back only by a lack of funds. Not one of these efforts has succeeded in bringing forward credible evidence of surviving POWs, much less a flesh-and-blood American prisoner. What they...
...rational person can realize that the argument falls flat given that the two issues are wholly incongruous. Yet the Puerto Rican electorate mixed la gimnasia con la magnesia, (apples with oranges) and fell prey to the specter of a worsening social crisis. If their aim was to kick the governor out, they should have waited until the '92 elections, rather than compromise their identity...
...disease." I applaud the author's intent to dispel any "lies" or "half-truths" and to inform the Harvard community of the "truth" surrounding HIV-infection and AIDS. But unfortunately, he presented information and statistics, often out-dated, which do not represent the entire present specter of the AIDS threat to both homosexual and heterosexual communities...