Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of Hardenburgh's sheep suddenly decide to become shepherds? It was certainly cheap and easy enough-the U.L.C. ordains ministers for $2 down and $2 a month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools...
...latest figures for the nine Common Market nations in Western Europe, there are about 1.8 million jobless youths; they make up 37% of all unemployed in the region. In Britain, more than 500,000 young people are out of work, equal to 35% of all the unemployed. French youths account for 37.6% of the jobless. West Germany's youthful unemployment of 24.8% of those out of work is the lowest in Europe, but that contrasts with conditions three years ago when Germany was importing labor (Gastarbeiter, or guest workers) to make up for shortages...
...soars to 80% for people under 30. Violence has flared, chiefly among frustrated students who know they will not be able to get jobs when they graduate. Riots this spring in major Italian cities have killed two policemen and two students. In Naples, where young people probably account for fully half the total of 250,000 unemployed, some 30,000 protesters marched through the center of the city last month demanding government job programs...
...photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included a warning that the company should not be "taken for a 'camel...
...subjected to unreasonable censorship practices, and has had to endure the knowledge that his actions have led to harassments and even house arrests of some of his family members. His book, a collection of narratives, reflections and excerpts from Israeli literature and the press, "illustrates" the authoritative and straightforward account which Jiryis has composed...