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...global structure and its negative effects on Third World economic development. He argues against the prevailing philosophy of a global "trickle down" phenomenon in which continuing expansion of the world market in its present form hypothetically contributes to Third World growth. Instead, he presents a less rosy picture. The built-in gap between the advanced and the less developed economies is so large that free trade between them only generates a still wider gap. The perverted logic of the international economic system dictates that Peruvian anchovies are sold to feed American livestock instead of hungry Peruvians. Multinational corporations, although they...
...members are always overwhelmingly from the business and financial worlds, as is the Corporation itself--this year's ACSR contains one economics professor, one business professor, one professor of political economy, two lawyers and a bank vice president, for example. It is unrealistic to expect a body with this built-in conservative financial bias to make socially responsible investment decisions...
...face-to-face basis, and the desire to turn to a higher authority to arbitrate disputes have also been inherited from the past. This French form of authority--which can also explain the dearth of intermediary associations between the individual and the state--has created its own built-in problems. The state is often isolated from the French citizens and has no conception of just how serious social divisions in the country are or how to go about solving them. As a result, French history is sprinkled with periodic crises and revolutions...
...future has been jeopardized by a dispute between its director and Producer Alberto Grimaldi, who could not come to terms over its running time. Bertolucci has now cut 1900 from 5½ hours to four without substantially altering its impact or scope-or for that matter, remedying its built-in weaknesses. Last week, on the eve of the new version's premiere at the New York Film Festival, Paramount Pictures announced that it would distribute the briefer movie nationwide...
...does have a way of standing out from this year's usual film fare, but the protagonists' quirky personalities are only part of the story. Odd-couple films are nothing new to American audiences, and--if one can hazard any generalizations about such movies--they tend to have a built-in pitfall. Few directors can resist the temptation to dwell on the most obvious differences between the two principals and milk every embarassed chuckle and nervous giggle out of the gag. This is acceptable for the first 15 minutes or so, but the jokes wear mercilessly thin after a while...