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From the new highway snaking through the jungles of western Hon duras to the huge irrigation and power project that is transforming Pakistan's Indus River Basin, many of the world's underdeveloped areas owe much to an organization that most Westerners have never heard of. The organization is the International Development Association, a branch of the World Bank founded in 1960 by 15 World Bank member nations to make "soft," easy-term loans-with no political strings attached-to poor nations. Last week IDA reached a milestone when the total it has loaned passed $1 billion...
This bizarre collection of hard-selling creatures all work for-and owe their existence to-a rather harmless-looking fellow named George Lesch, Colgate's president. While not exactly a white knight, Lesch, 55, has certainly proved to be something of a whirling tornado at the U.S.'s second largest soap company (first: Procter & Gamble...
...postcard that says you owe Lamont a reserve book is usually the result of a clerical error...
...think that this whole 3-D business was just a practical joke and a poor one at that. Such a stunt could have seriously injured someone; we feel that you owe the whole University an apology. Faiga Brussell '67 Ellen Gallant '66 Inray Nagel...
...wasn't until I was satisfied that Murph is strictly his own man-he doesn't owe anybody anything-that I agreed to lend a hand." No Instant Sage. As a Senator, Murphy will likely push hard on issues of particular California interest, such as desalinization projects to ease the state's water problems and increased defense spending in the hope of pumping more military dollars into the plants back home. Generally, he will probably vote as a conservative on fiscal matters, a cautious liberal on civil rights, and as a selective Senator on such matters...