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...overcome: a shortage of trained pilots. Thus even France's recent sale of 108 hot Mirage jets to Libya is unlikely to change the equation soon. Egypt, with 33.5 million people, is unable to train enough pilots to fly 350 Soviet aircraft; Libya, which has a more backward population of 1,800,000, will have a tougher time learning to handle its latest Paris models...
...Profit in Trades. The trouble with Wall Street is that the securities business, which fattens on the managerial prowess and high technical competence of others, is itself poorly managed and technically backward. Though the Stock Exchange has started a centralized certificate clearing service, millions of dollars worth of stock certificates are still moved back and forth each day by aged messengers. Office automation came to the brokerage business relatively recently, and only because the Street was strangling in its own paper work. In 1968, brokers stepped up hiring expensive new talent and adding office equipment. All of this added greatly...
...deprived children, adult eyes watch from juvenile faces. François never completely changes; in the end, a prank turns into tragedy, and François takes a giant step backward to an institution. But if hope is dimmed it is not entirely extinguished; François is no longer a child, but neither is he unadoptable...
...results were amazing." Yen said. "The Chinese upper face is shorter and has a flat contour, the nose is not as long and is more vertically inclined that that of the white, his teeth naturally protrude more, and the chin is naturally more backward in the face and is less distinctive." he added...
...Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall, U.S. interests would suffer...