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...Unlikely Catalyst. In short, the tables have turned in the oil trade?and in oil diplomacy. Largely because Feisal has withheld his oil, the sellers now completely dominate the buyers. In many ways, Feisal is an unlikely catalyst for such sweeping change. He is basically the monarch of a 19th century state that is edging cautiously into modern times (see box page...
...Youth Congress family, see that secession from the United States of America will be a catalyst to the preservation of Hawaii's land, culture and people...
...sudden as it may seem; the Arab forces were not really as hopeless as they appeared to be in 1967, or probably as able as they look today. Nonetheless, it does seem that a new Arab spirit is emerging, and the darkest irony is that the chief catalyst of that change is the Arab nations' principal enemy...
Neruda's early work was rhapsodic and lushly romantic, at once Whitmanesque and surrealistic. During the 1930s, the style and tone of his verse abruptly changed. The catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, which Neruda witnessed as a Chilean consul in Spain...
...THINK THAT Bogart was the catalyst. In each film after Casablanca. Bogart played a role outlined by Chandler. Yet the role was so much in own stylistically, and he emphasized it so much in film after film, that Bogart became our idea of Philip Marlowe, no matter whom he played. That is, he contributed as much to the public's perception of Marlowe as Chandler. Rick Leland and Marlowe are remarkable similar, even though Casabalanca was released before Chandler achieved any popularity. Aloofness merged with compassion, ruthlessness with a unique sense of justice, cynicism with a deep sense of morality...