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...experts contend, they would not just close up shop; they would sell out. Says Jack Behrman, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce: "The Germans, French, Japanese and other potential buyers are not as antiapartheid as American companies. If U.S. interests were sold to South Africans, that would just strengthen apartheid...
They come to better themselves. By doing so they also stimulate our economy, diversify our cuisine, enrich our language and culture, bring innovative ideas and strengthen our gene pool. Some say we cannot afford to have more immigrants. I wonder if we can afford not to. Guy Langsdale Miami...
...First, lengthen the nuclear fuse. Strengthen our conventional capability in Europe. Deter all the way up the line...
These plot developments in the beauty shop strengthen and help negate the story’s weak beginning, marked by hazy transitions, awkward close-ups, and forced character histories. When Norris comes into her own with her new workers at the shop, the film gains a heightened and refreshing energy...
Neither of these actions, if taken, would further the interests of the University nor strengthen its principled position. Sinopec lacks PetroChina’s clear and prominent relationship with the Sudanese government. Sinopec’s primary involvement with Sudan is in the construction of a pipeline from northern to southern Sudan, which will eventually produce revenues to be split between the Khartoum regime and the fledgling government of south Sudan, which recently ceased a two decades-long war against the north. Where PetroChina dealt solely with the Khartoum government, Sinopec’s revenue-sharing agreement was built into...