Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uruguayans pride themselves on having the purest democracy in the Western Hemisphere. They got it 14 years ago, when the nation abolished its one-man presidency and set up a Swiss-style nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...
...season's first opening, on Sept. 22, will be Edward Albee's fifth annual Broadway entry, A Delicate Balance. The author calls it a "naturalistic comedy," akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...must set aside as reserves on certain types of time deposits from 5% to the statutory limit of 6%, starting next month. This will take approximately $450 million out of lendable circulation. Credit-starved housing starts dropped to the lowest level since the bottom of the 1960 recession, an annual rate of 1,064,000 units. Mortgage lenders gloomily forecast that the new prime rate would increase the cost and scarcity of money for home loans still further. The cost of personal and auto loans will also feel pressure, bankers agreed...
...greater degree than in the U.S., Japanese department-store sales are considered to be a highly reliable thermometer of the national economy. Between 1955 and 1964, Japan's G.N.P. soared by an annual average of 14% ; during that same period, department-store sales rose by 13% a year. In '65, when an inevitable slowdown set in, the growth rate of the national economy and the 156 members of the national Department Store Association (21 of them in Tokyo) suffered similarly. Thus, last week, when word came out that July department-store sales in Tokyo were up 11.9% over...
...newest game people play is called "Take-Home Pay." First, take an executive. Add a wife, two children and a gross annual income of $14,000, and what do you get? In the U.S.-$11,968. A survey of European executives in similar circumstances, conducted by Associated Industrial Consultants of London, shows that the Frenchman plays the game $100 better than his U.S. counterpart. The Norwegian does worst of all. The ranking...