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...complement of consolidating recipient countries is grouping donors. The President proposed that eighty five per cent of American foreign aid be given within a "multilateral" framework. Johnson defines multilateralism in two ways. First, he requires the matching of American grants by other industrial countries. According to the President, America would give India as much wheat as Canada, Australia, and Russia together contributed, up to three million tons. Second, the President weakly insisted that we "redouble our efforts" to finance development schemes through neutral institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank...
...away when mastodons loomed large in Braintree and I was a callow Yardling, people at Harvard knew motion pictures from weekend escapism, late-night television, or reading period orgies at the Brattle. Movies killed time and blew your mind. They were a cheap date. True, we had our complement of film societies and encyclopaedic experts. And true, too, there were few among us who wouldn't offer up, if pressed, a definition of the Bogart mystique or a guarded speculation as to what Truffant was really up to. But by and large the motion picture was pretty small beer...
...opposition's awareness of the cradle does leave Henjyoji with more freedom to work other moves, and he is working continuously to perfect new pinning combinations that complement the cradle...
...does, but The Astrakhan Coat is not very good, only superficially new, and never particularly thrilling. Even avid whodunit fans must be a trifle bored by corpses in trunks, corpses that drop out of closets, and the confetti-like strewing of misleading clues. Coat also contains the customary complement of victims whose impenetrable innocence prevents them from knowing when or how to withdraw from transparently treacherous situations...
...aerotrain, says Bertin modestly, "is intended to complement the car for distances between 70 and 140 miles." With that in mind, he flew to the U.S. this week. His objective: the formation of a joint Franco-American firm to build a demonstration aerotrain that could cut travel time between New York and Washington to an hour and a half...