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...important to win this game after losing to Dartmouth, not only for our personal pride and confidence but also to gain a good seed in the regionals coming up," Seidler added...
MOST MEMORABLE BOOKS: Burpee's 1978 seed catalogue, Eloise Goes to Paris...
Alperovitz's scenario in the feasibility study removes corporate clutches altogether. With federal loan guarantees similar to New York City's and with several million dollars of federal seed money, the Youngstown workers and community could buy, re-open, and gradually modernize the plant. The government's other choice is to pay the estimated $75 million in unemployment and increased welfare benefits over the next three years in Youngstown alone. Alperovitz puts it this way: A corporation would never be satisfied with a 3 per cent return because it could make 8 or 10 per cent elsewhere. But owners from...
...since 1973. That year a Page vice president sold Amin a Gulfstream after giving him a lift from Uganda to a meeting of Third World leaders in Algiers. Page subsequently sold Amin a Lockheed cargo plane and furnished crews for it. When Amin wanted to buy medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...
...purple rug listening to the bleat of lams and ewes, listening for our children. He listened for Esau. His beloved Esau. The elder son. As though first were sum of all the parts. As though life were nothing more than a transparent fluid for passing on the seed of Abraham. And he was jealous for that, content to be the shadow of an eagle as I never...