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Mexico's refinancing troubles will undoubtedly result in some abrupt changes in global banking's freewheeling ways. Financiers, who within the past year have already become wary of making too many foreign loans, are now likely to become much more circumspect. Says Hans Wuttke, the executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank subsidiary: "The pace of lending has already slowed down...
...take orders. New techniques had to be devised. Sennett skillfully traces the modern evolution of authority from paternalism, which falsely promises to take care of its subject, to the impersonal modern manager who controls his subordinates by politely treating them as unnecessary. Says Sennett: "It is not so much abrupt moments of humiliation as month after month of disregarding his employees, of not taking them seriously, which establishes his domination . . . It is a silent erosion of their sense of self-worth which will wear them down." Sennett concludes that domination is a "necessary disease the social organism suffers." It cannot...
...obsessed by death, I don't believe in fatalism," Thompson insists. "I am an outside observer, like a journalist." Nevertheless, these observations seem drawn from inside himself. The album's title cut, for example, is a bone-chilling evocation of metropolitan madness, a song full of abrupt violence and long shadows of empty city streets. It's Just the Motion is about drowning, literally and figuratively, slipping off from life at the bottom...
Inevitably, the Thursday attack brought an abrupt halt to the peace talks. Lebanese Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan, who had been serving as an intermediary between the P.L.O. and the American negotiators, declared that he could no longer continue to participate while his "beloved Beirut" was being bombarded. With tears of outrage in his eyes, the Prime Minister told Habib that if the Israelis were bent on destroying Beirut and its people, "then let them kill us all now and get it over with, and let you and the U.S. bear the consequences." Wazzan's performance was both heartfelt...
...this came to an abrupt end in 1521 when the conquistadors and their Indian allies conquered the Aztecs. The Spaniards leveled the temple, destroyed much of the statuary and parceled out the land among themselves...