Word: twinning
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...diplomatic shuttle, but not exactly in the Kissinger mode: no custom-fitted Air Force jet, no phalanx of aides, bodyguards and reporters. British Envoy Ivor Richard last week hopped from capital to capital in southern and eastern Africa in a modest chartered twin-engined Hawker Siddeley executive jet, arrived at airports with little fanfare and had only four Foreign Office staffers in tow. Richard, who is Britain's chief delegate to the United Nations, was desperately trying to breathe life into the seemingly paralyzed efforts to transfer power peacefully from Rhodesia's 271,000 whites...
...company's takeover by Rupert Murdoch marks an important new addition to the largely sex-and-scandal press empire that Murdoch is building in Australia, Britain and the U.S. It also marks Murdoch's emergence as a major presence in U.S. journalism. Having committed roughly $45 million to his twin gambles within the past two months, Murdoch appears to control ample amounts of money, and, as he proved last week, he is accomplished at quick takeovers...
...many interesting implications for economics that derive from Schumacher's alternative metaphysics is a major change in foreign aid and development policy. Two phenomena that characterize many developing countries today are mass unemployment and mass migration into the cities. Schumacher sees these twin evils linked by "mutual poisoning." Successful creation of a modern economic sector in the cities destroys the natural economy of the rural areas. The countryside, in turn, exacts its revenge, however; the rural population floods into the cities. This migration saps the cities' resources and makes them impossible to manage. The modern sector can't grow...
...Crimson squad, showing little of the well-choreographed passing game that brought twin victories against Emmanuel and Brown last week, played consistently well for the first three quarters of the game, but finally collapsed under a blizzard of Bentley offensive drives...
...movie's message is simple enough: Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the once popular anchorman of a national newscast, falls victim to the twin evils of booze and declining ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...