Word: tionalization
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...News President Van Gordon Sauter believes that the apparent disparity in treatment between print and TV is deliberate. Says he: "There have been some compelling word pieces about the devastation in Beirut, but the Israelis know that words, however eloquent, lack the emo tional impact of pictures of people grabbing at stones and clearing rubble to find a human leg." Another explanation: most print reporters in Beirut can file directly to their newspapers in the U.S., over standard international telex lines, without going through Israeli authorities...
...Although we are entirely opposed to weapons of mass destruc- tion, I suppose many of my colleagues would support conven tional weapons of one kind or another. No one at C.N.D. is suggesting that any country abandon all military defense." The C.N.D. wants Britain emptied of nuclear weapons because, says Kent, "we are not prepared to be the first casualties in a war between the superpowers...
Meanwhile, local officials are busily attempting to woo more companies to the region and to turn Miami into an interna tional tional trading trading center. center. Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Inc. Inc. opened an aircraft engine part machining plant at Miami International Airport this year, and a number of electronics, pharmaceutical and medical-equipment companies are moving into the region. The Miami Free Zone, one of dozens of free-trade districts in the U.S. where imported goods can be stored and assembled with out being subject to Customs duties, has handled over $326 million worth of goods this year...
...opportunity for obvious political manipulation, they are almost sure to be resisted not only by Third World countries but also by America's principal economic partners. The West, to use its wealth effectively, needs a common investment strategy. Hence a more prudent course would be to strengthen internal tional financial institutions. That means using America's still dom inant position on the governing boards of those bodies to improve their ability to tie - and occasion ally yank - the economic strings that must be attached to loans and aid programs...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...