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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lacking the legal authority to impose a solution, the Labor government and the courts appear to be powerless. Indeed, the Grunwick siege has raised some fundamental questions about the ability of Britain's democratic institutions to resolve labor disputes...
...bombast on both sides, few of Rivlin's critics really believe she will ever become the bureaucratic wallflower some would dearly like her to be. This week she is scheduled to appear again before Bob Giaimo's House Budget Committee and give her colleagues' views on the economy's course for the rest of 1977. Her outlook will probably be much less radiant than the official Administration forecast-and thus cause for yet another round of muttering by agitated politicians...
What moved Kuhrmeier to set up his bank within a bank remains a psychological mystery. So far, investigators appear to be convinced that he gained no personal profit from the alleged fraud. But as a top London banker points out, the scandal "could have happened in any other country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal...
Although Carter once predicted that the decision would be a lonely one, the burden did not appear to have weighed heavily on him. Was he relieved to have it done with? Said Powell: "As with any difficult decision, there has to be some sense of relief." Still, Carter's decision will hold only until the refurbished B-52s begin to require replacement. Then the debate over a new generation of bombers, if there is to be one, will resume. Certainly, few in the Air Force would agree that the manned bomber has no future. But this is a problem...
People have always accused kids of getting away with murder. Now that is all too literally true. Across the U.S., a pattern of crime has emerged that is both perplexing and appalling. Many youngsters appear to be robbing and raping, maiming and murdering as casually as they go to a movie or join a pickup baseball game. A new, remorseless, mutant juvenile seems to have been born, and there is no more terrifying figure in America today...