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...incentives for undersea exploration extend beyond the historical and archaeological benefits. High-tech fortune hunters are locating sunken treasure ships and recovering their precious cargo. New remote-controlled vehicles are prowling the ocean depths, some dropping listening devices and scouting out potential hiding places for missile-firing submarines. Others are seeking mineral deposits and clues to the movement of the earth's tectonic plates, and charting the two-thirds of the earth's surface that until recently has been largely inaccessible...
...take over villages for conferences and as sales-incentive rewards to employees. Frenchman Gilbert Trigano, 65, hardly talks like a man who flirted with Communism before he founded Club Med. Now the organization's president, he says that "we make a special effort for corporations. They are especially precious...
...argued that a ruling protecting private homosexual and heterosexual acts between consenting adults would undermine the state's efforts to maintain a "decent and moral society" and would open the way to protecting polygamy, incest, adultery and prostitution. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe countered that the case involved two precious constitutional freedoms: the right to engage in private sexual relations and the right to be free from Government intrusion into one's home. The U.S. Supreme Court is still considering the case...
...root of terrorism, he misunderstood the character of Libya's actions. He argued that the frustration of attempts to bring about the formation of a Palestinian homeland has left Arabs so outraged that they have resorted to terrorism. But in the case of Libya, the Palestinian question had precious little to do with terrorism. The bombing of a West German disco or the proposal to buy U.S. hostages from Lebanon were state-ordered acts, not expressions of violence by angry Palestinian youths...
...appeal from the heart." Most Carmel residents agree, up to a point. McDonald's will never rear its golden arches within the one-square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little Sur" but have no street addresses. The mayor would like to guard this ambience even more vigorously; she is proud of the fact that during her two terms...