Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is happening, but are just too self-centered to be outraged by oppression going on half-way around the world, even though the loyal Corporation we give our money to financially supports that oppression. This is an explanation which I just don't want to believe could be true...
...True, man has ridden horse for several millenia, and despite his continual growth through medical advancements, has never become too large. The horse has grown with him. But does capability necessitate responsibility? Just because the horse can carry man, that does not mean the jockey has to ride...
...against the regime, how its tanks and machine guns crushed any opposition U.P. supporters could raise. That summer, the largely Christian Democrat parliament had permitted the army to collect most of the arms of the civilian population, leaving the militants nothing but makeshift tools with which to resist. True to the actual history, Soto spares the audience none of the horror of a poorly-armed struggle against the tanks--he shows the militants' optimism and then their defeat, in the same unyielding detail...
...G.O.P. plan would not tax oil at the wellhead, gasoline at the pump or gas-guzzling cars at the factory. Instead, the Republicans want federal price controls removed from all gas and oil when a "true world price for energy resources emerges." Until then, the G.O.P. Senators advocate a transition period in which Congress must ensure "that any excess energy profits are reinvested by the energy industry to find and produce yet more energy"-or taxed, with revenue returning to the consumer. 2) The Republican program pushes nuclear power more than the Carter plan. It calls for research into...
...other members of the Big Three, the Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland, offered Crédit Suisse a $ 1.2 billion line of Crédit. Crédit Suisse refused the offer, explaining that it could easily absorb the Chiasso loss, and indeed that seems true. But the Chiasso affair and the other failures are raising severe questions about the efficiency, as well as the ethics of Swiss banking. Even some Swiss financiers are charging that Swiss bankers are vastly overrated and that only the constantly climbing Swiss franc makes them appear proficient. "Swiss banking relies...