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...Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Now Taiwan's eligibility for loans from these organizations will come into question. Particularly endangered is the island's most-favored-nation status. Indeed the whole business climate of the island may be its most vulnerable element once the American defense umbrella is removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Taiwan: Shock and Fury | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...that, but it's a drop in the ocean. They affect so few black workers--much less than 1 per cent. I think that's irrelevant anyway because the black leaders themselves have discounted this. I think that claiming to be helping black South Africans is often the umbrella under which the corporations rationalize their participation in the South African economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investment in South Africa: Donald Woods Speaks Out | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

...pass to Polillio and a 15-yd. roughing call on the ensuing tackle put Harvard at the Penn 15, Brown decided to strike quickly for six. And quickly he did, rolling right and rifling a bullet across his body to split and John MacLeod, who had curled inside an umbrella of three defenders right at the goal line...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Survives Quaker Scare, 17-13 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Radcliffe. In a whisper, he tells a fairly constant stream of women the combination to the locked ladies' room. His cubicle serves as a storage area for students' personal belongings, "especially around Christmas, when everyone's carrying lots of packages." When it suddenly rains and you've forgotten your umbrella, he cheerily dispenses plastic bags so at least your 20-page paper...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: A Tradition In Lamont | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...Rife killed Cora's father?" One of the cast marries a Japanese man. He is apparently the only Japanese in town. No explanation is given of how he got there. When World War II breaks out, we hear that his wife bashes a Fed over the head with an umbrella when they come to take him away to an internment camp. He reappears later in the book, casually, and again no explanation is given...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Half Dozen of the Other | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

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