Word: umbrellas
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DOMINATED BY INTELLECTUALS, the Parti Quebecois is an umbrella party which unites under its independentist banner people of both leftist and rightist persuasions. In its first cabinet, for instance, the P.Q. government had both a labor minister who fought for the highest minimum wage on the continent and for pro-union labor legislation, and a finance minister known for his conservatism. Until last year, the party was pledged to withdraw from NATO, but at its last convention, it reversed its policy so as not to antagonize...
...movie screen, but he is still high on show business. Lacing on skates instead of running shoes, he sings and cavorts with fellow Olympic Star Dorothy Hamill on her April 28 ABC special. In one sequence he does a James Bond routine and brandishes a smoking umbrella. "He was really a lot of fun to work with. He made me feel relaxed," says Hamill. Which helped during a mishap. Instead of being lifted straight up on harnesses for a "flying" number, Jenner and Hamill tipped over once they were airborne, becoming ungainly free-floating mobiles. Both preferred their ice capades...
...Attorney Glistrup had attracted scores of wealthy clients through his enterprising use of the deductions allowed by Danish law on debt interest. Essentially, he set up a string of 2,716 dummy firms for his clients-bearing such mock names as the Lyngby Umbrella Rental Co. and the RXPQY-240 Co. These paper enterprises could then absorb the paper debts of Glistrup's clientele and pay income taxes at half the rate charged to private persons. Glistrup split the savings with his clients, who were able to enter less punishing tax brackets. In some cases, they managed to avoid...
Another argument is that "the status quo is adequate." If it were, how could I cite so many obvious problems that students are powerless to address without a central voice? Why, even at schools with decision-making based on a student-faculty committee system, would there still exist an umbrella organization to maintain student unity and provide student services? One thing is certain: a student association will not make things any worse...
...Krim says, U.A. suffered all sorts of indignities, including the imposition by Transamerica of a computerized profit-forecasting system that Krim considered "a joke" in the instinctive movie business. But most galling of all were the consequences of the fact that under Transamerica's umbrella, U.A. had become an "invisible company," with no stock exchange listing of its own. Although shares of other moviemakers such as Columbia and 20th Century-Fox have been shooting up on the strength of box-office hits, Transamerica's stock has hung listlessly in the $13-$16 range. The U.A. executives...