Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other central conceptual confusion in Global Reach is on the subject of nationalism. Barnet and Mueller rightly attack global corporations as a form of internationalism whose social costs are unacceptable. But as a result, they tend to be overly sympathetic to economic nationalism, and to the anti-trust tradition of American populism, though they recognize that the notion of trust-busting is "quixotic" and not historically possible. Not only does an anti-oligopolistic strategy, such as that Barnet and Mueller in part propose, lead nowhere, but it is also directly at odds with other strategies they suggest which might...
...Force Academy, goes one step further: "The honor code was the most important influence on my life, period. It affects your standards of self, my expectations, and even how I raise my kids." In all three services, academy graduates emphasize the importance of being able to trust the word of a fellow officer...
...earlier about the strong caring for the weak. His decision to "stick it out" in Vietnam is partially explained by an incident when he was disciplined and shamed by his father. The validity of this methodology must be doubted. First of all, we are being asked to trust a man who will probably go down as one of the two greatest presidential liars in history. If he'd lie about bombing and killing, why should we think he'd tell the truth to Kearns about his political life, especially when he was so conscious of the way historians would treat...
...handling of the walkout again calls into question the validity of the University's highly-touted internal investigatory process. Workers, confronted with the perverse turns which this process has taken--in the Holcombe, Trudel and Glass Gases--cannot here be expected to trust its impartiality...
...director of a literary magazine, Lunes de Revolucion, that was closed down in 1961. After conflict over a film that was not funded because its theme was "decadent," he left the island on a diplomatic mission, never to return. Though he is too idiosyncratic for any political group to trust him, the prestige of his first novel, Three Trapped Tigers, has given him authority as a spokesman for refugee Cuban intellectuals...