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...more wide eyed. But the message is reiterated in passage after passage, and not only in the politically suspect New Testament, where socialists have always found solace. Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish...
...have been working very hard for the last two or three years to see whether we couldn't, as part of the planning exercise and [capital] campaign, strengthen and make much more apparent a major initiative in Latin American studies," Rudenstine said
...want to get ready for some changes. Paine Webber announced it will buy Kidder Peabody from General Electric for $670 million. The move will make Paine Webber the fourth largest brokerage firm in America, after Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney and Dean Witter. On the bright side, the move should strengthen the firm's already considerable research and investment resources. On the down side, though, some analysts speculate that as many as half of Kidder's 5,000 employees may be laid off eventually...
Funds raised from the University-wide capital campaign will strengthen education and faculty at Harvard, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles told an audience of more than 600 Harvard Club officials and Alumni Association (HAA) staff members at the Briggs Athletic Center last night...
Such entreaties have become essential for America's blue-chip companies as they charge into the vast markets of China and its East Asian neighbors. Spurred on by the Clinton Administration's efforts to strengthen commercial ties with Beijing, firms ranging from Boeing to DuPont are teaming up with local partners to build plants in China and circumvent the country's nettlesome trade barriers. In doing so, however, U.S. firms may find themselves marooned on a capitalist frontier where a version of intellectual property rights has yet to be invented and where newly unleashed entrepreneurs openly imitate the products...