Word: terrains
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...impossible to project anything personal into it. There is no toehold to stand on, which means that the scene must be accepted for its celluloid self, and your subjectivity abrogated. Once he has done that you are glued to his films, and he takes you across whatever elusive terrain he chooses...
...Rhodesian army has set up scores of its barbed-wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
...extracting about $1.2 billion a year in taxes from private producers operating in its area of the sea-in addition to its interest in the profits of British Petroleum, which is 48% owned by the crown. Norway will have to export the oil from its area, since the undersea terrain makes building a pipeline to Norway impossible. Two weeks ago, the Norwegian Parliament approved a proposal to pipe oil from its Ekofisk fields to Britain and gas to Germany. By 1980, sales of North Sea oil could be providing the equivalent of $100 annual income for every Norwegian. The Oslo...
...Vietnamese liberation forces decided to change tactics, as they had so many times before in their three-decade struggle to free their country. They would shift the focus of the struggle and compete with Thieu peacefully, on political terrain...
...still companies engaging in dubious political activities at home and abroad. And there are still companies whose products and plants could be considerably safer or whose wastes could be disposed of more cleanly. So the battle lines are drawn, it would seem, for some time to come. But the terrain does vary from year to year. This year the battle for Harvard's proxies is being fought on the following ground...