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...reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...
Today Johnson markets his sculptures with executive aplomb. Last year his work brought in $700,000; this year the amount may reach $1 million. His Wash ington-based Sculpture Placement organization will put on twelve shows this year at urban plazas, resort hotels, corporate headquarters and airports. They are not aimed only at collectors. "We do some advertising in ARTnews, but we also advertise in Architectural Digest, " says Johnson. "That's where the money and power for outdoor sculpture is." In the art world Johnson has been as much a patron as a producer. He has provided substantial funding...
...missing. In a surprised, almost wounded tone, Fuller noted, "All the wreckage is gone." It was hard for him to believe that all those destroyed landing craft, tanks and trucks had disappeared. "Look at the parking lot and the vacation houses," said Fuller. "The place has turned into a resort!" Still, he was moved by the sight. Hoisting his nine-year-old daughter Samantha onto his shoulders, Fuller moved across the 200 yards of beach to the water line. For a moment he stood there silently, then retraced his steps of 40 years ago with his child, instead...
...Gutiérrez, "confirms the thesis that the Contadora process is a genuine and viable forum toward a peace settlement and brings confidence we will succeed in a short time." He referred to the process begun in January 1983 when representatives of the four countries met at the Panamanian resort island of Contadora to search for a peaceful solution to the Central American crisis through indirect diplomacy...
...decision, the court's belief in the ban's equal impact seemed to consider rich and poor alike. Said he: "The city council campaign costs a quarter of a million dollars if it costs a dime. People who don't have that kind of money resort to signs...