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...Abolish, over 5½ years, all ceilings on the interest rates that banks and S and Ls can pay to savers. The savings institutions could then pay, even on ordinary passbook accounts, any rate that they thought necessary to attract money. They can do this now only on $100,000 certificates of deposit, or $1,000 CDs running four years or longer...
Greece. The cradle of democracy exercised its birthright last week-end, voting by a 90 per cent majority to abolish the monarchy and replace it with a constitutional republic. Sound progressive...
...ideology of revolution must reflect the temperament and social conditions of the time. But it must also yield the revolutionary a new perspective on his society. We can neither abolish, nor permanently accept our governmental and economic institutions. A successful revolutionary movement must have a compelling plan for dealing with the grave injustices which those institutions inflict upon us. It is here that Revolution American Style fails. Without a cogent plan, whatever "American" spirit there is within us remains academic. The Revolution of 1976 will be inoperative...
...rituals, and made a conscientious breakaway in high school. The new religion had all the virtues of tepid liberalism, without the hungry search for righteous causes so dismally pursued over the past decade by many students and suburbanites. Porter was attracted by the religion's calls for men to "abolish extreme wealth and extreme poverty," "to choose an international language to be used along with the mother tongue," and to grant women "equal opportunities, rights and privileges." His parents were concerned only with the teaching of Baha'i which encourages interracial and cross-cultural marriages, he said...
...American World Airways, Icelandic Airways and Sabena Airways all decided to abolish the fares--which allow travelers under 30 who declare that they are students to fly to Europe at $100 to $150 discounts--after a two-year price-cutting...