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Therefore, the Saudis share the responsibility of major industri alized countries to help the international financial institutions as sist the LDCs. In the long run it is in the interests of the West and its wealthy friends in the Third World to wean the poorer na tions from their current paradoxical addiction: socialist nostrums at home financed by capitalist largesse from abroad...
...beliefs through "deprogramming." Mostly they have been enthralled by the likes of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon or the Hare Krishnas. Patrick has also processed a woman whose mother opposed her impending marriage and-just this year-Susan Wirth, 35, a San Francisco college teacher whose mother wanted to wean her away from far-left politics...
...when he treated the star for saddle sores, he painted a fascinating, depressing picture of life with the king: - Presley was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol and barbiturates as well. Twice, in October 1973 and again in March 1975, he was hospitalized, and attempts were made to wean him off drugs, one time using methadone. But Presley was so distrustful of his doctors after learning they were psychiatrists that he refused any further treatment. - On tour, Presley routinely popped pills to go to sleep, before and after shows, and to wake up. Nichopoulos always took along three suitcases full...
...China is still very, very low in comparison to the United States and even to the West and the Soviet Union. I think the Chinese were quite clear in pointing out in their recent visit that they want American technology--particularly in the agricultural sphere--to try to wean away the 80 per cent of the Chinese population which is now engaged in agricultural production to feed the one billion Chinese...
...sculpture, but people live and work in buildings. It is the most expensive art of all and therefore the slowest to change; for once clients are used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant that though architecture changes more slowly than painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What...