Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, Riccardo and Cafiero face some tough decisions of their own if they are to make Chrysler consistently profitable. They will need to further revamp its product line, which is currently top-heavy with models that have sold poorly in spite of cash rebates. But the company has far less money than either GM or Ford to spend on developing new models. Its share of the new-car market has fallen to 15% now from 19% five years ago, mainly because, according to critics, Chrysler has paid too much attention to engineering and bookkeeping and not enough to figuring...
...spite of its ambitious designs, Amnesty has its limitations. White observes that "it would be Pollyanna-ish to say that we're always successful." It is of course impossible for Amnesty to find out about all the political prisoners in the world. After imprisoning someone for political reasons, governments are naturally not anxious to publicize the matter and usually do their best to conceal it. "We are only handling a miniscule amount compared with the problem," White concedes. Amnesty must still reject even some of those cases that come to its attention, due to sheer volume. "We're successful with...
...Martian is very much mistaken and it is here that he does resemble somewhat the boy who noticed something wrong with the king--it appears to him that while the prevailing behaviorist theory has been dismantled, no other theory has been advanced to take its place, this in spite of all the talk by transformationalists about "explanatory models...
Lessing has always created plausible characters, and those in Memoirs are no exception. Except for Hugo, the semi-anthropomorphic half-dog, half-cat mutation, they are realistic in spite of their bizarre behavior. In order to get past the first page of any fantasy one must suspend disbelief and as long as the characters' emotions are understandable their paws and whiskers don't matter. It's hard to carry fantasy off so well: authors tend either toward the cold creations of science fiction or totally unbelievable little critters with hairy toes. Lessing avoids both extremes. With Hugo as a minor...
...children become adults in spite of the holocaust, and Emily's development becomes the main focus of the novel. The narrator can only watch helplessly as Emily readies herself to take her place in the world outside, where the struggle to survive has become steadily more intense. Finally she becomes "the woman" of the leader of one of the packs of adolescents who room the city looking for food, and begins to explore areas she has previously avoided--friendship, love and responsibility for other human beings...