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...increase Canadian ownership of the U.S.-dominated oil and gas industries to 50% by 1990 and to ensure that foreign investment projects benefit Canada have had a stultifying effect on business activity and encouraged investment capital to leave Canada. Says a Reagan Administration economist: "Canadianization hangs like a sword of Damocles over all those large companies that have traditionally operated in both countries...
...Wants). But the works are small only in measure. All contain social and psychological resonances that sound long after this remarkable book is closed. A few are comic, like James Thurber's If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox, a portrait of the crocked general handing over his sword to an astonished Lee. In two cases, stories provide a mirror effect. Isaac Babel's The Death of Dolgushov concerns the inability of men fully to apprehend the griefs and atrocities of battle; Doris Lessing's Homage for Isaac Babel is about the inability of children to comprehend...
...Corporation's expressed devotion to precedent can also be a double-edged sword. Students were baffled earlier this year when it seemed as if the Corporation was trying to go back on the University's ban on doing business with banks which lend money to the South African government after it had sold $50 millions worth of certificates in Citibank which had made an ostensibly humanitarian loan to the apartheid regime...
...will summon every kind of terror against God, says the LORD God; every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgement with him and his hordes, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone. So I will show my greatness and my holiness...(Ezekial...
...King's palace in Riyadh, which I visited in November 1973, was on a monumental scale. Preceded by two sword carriers, I was taken to a tremendous hall. Dozens of men (women being strictly segregated) in identical black robes and white headdresses were seated along the walls, immobile and silent. What seemed like 100 yards away on a slightly raised pedestal sat King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, aquiline of feature, regal of bearing. He rose as I entered, forcing all the princes and sheiks to follow suit in a flowing balletlike movement of black and white...