Word: objections
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...back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate, cattle, rental cars and aircraft. He owns a small publishing house and a large kiwifruit orchard...
...therefore object strongly to Mughogho's contention that "students could...be eliminated on technicalities" (in his example, the fact that social service is not a commonplace extracurricular opportunity in non-Western societies "that are not directly related to their ability to do well at college...
...object of much of the nativist anger is the thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, who work on northern San Diego County farms, which last year yielded $770 million in strawberries, tomatoes, avocados and other produce. Many of the workers live in appalling squalor. As expensive housing developments continue to go up near the farms, residents often discover that they live next door to Third World-style worker encampments. "The Americans don't want us here, and so they are always reporting us to the authorities," says Longilo Miranda, 18, a worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father...
...policies of England, the United States and other world powers during the imperialist era often produced the economic and political turmoil in non-Western cultures that devalued their art. As a result, Western collectors could buy art object cheaply, or simply take them. At the same time, these collectors could argue that they were performing a moral service by "preserving" art from destruction...
...quickly becoming outdated. As we begin the '90s, the zeitgeist has changed again. Now the sensitive male is a wimp and an object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher...