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...chances of lethal misunderstandings far greater than they were in Europe. President Bush seemed to dismiss this concern in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Feb. 26: "It is presumptuous and insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world...is somehow untouched by the most basic aspirations of life. Human cultures can be vastly different, yet the human heart desires the same good things everywhere on earth...
Most European family firms are closely held and reluctant to disclose more than the basic financial information required by regulators. But in France, many of the biggest family companies are publicly listed, thanks to securities laws that let such companies leverage a substantial part of their assets on the stock market while still maintaining control. Of the 250 largest firms whose shares trade on the Paris stock exchange, 57% were family controlled in 1998 (the latest year for which figures are available), up from 48% five years earlier, according to a study by the Insead business school. By comparison, about...
...with no need for the Western products that have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, both the man and the system had sacrificed basic human values for the sake of abstract, lethal rhetoric...
After grounding her audience with the basic background, Bynum traced the emergence of violence and pain in religious imagery...
...Civil liberties embody the basic principles of deliberative democracy, which are not necessarily reducible to numbers,” he said...