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...Reagan Administration, which has been working through its embassy to aid Costa Rica with the IMF, hopes to get some money from Congress to help out. This week Carazo's government will meet with some of its international bank creditors and try again to avert the day of reckoning. &151;By William E. Smith. Reported by James Willwerth...
...leaders are at last beginning to recognize that Social Security has major financial problems that can be solved only by slowing the growth of benefits. The Social Security Administration's own actuaries predict that the retirement fund will be out of money by 1984. Fancy financial footwork can avert bankruptcy that year, but the program's long-term problems cannot be avoided...
...corruption spread. Even Harding began to notice the borborygmic rumbles coming from his overstuffed subordinates. By then it was too late to avert scandals, although Harding did not live to suffer them. He died, apparently of a heart at tack, perhaps complicated by simple bafflement. Today, in a more cynical age, it is hard to believe that so many officials could plunder so brazenly. Mee's version of this gaudy time is light and entertaining. It may also, if the reader wishes, be taken as cautionary...
...only with Tulsa-based Cities Service, whose president, Charles Waidelich, had rushed from Oklahoma to a hotel suite at New York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres in the U.S., as well as additional...
...even then the Israelis were not relying solely on diplomatic maneuvering to avert a nuclear problem. Israeli agents were gathering information on the Iraqi project so successfully that one Israeli official boasts they were "almost ahead of the Iraqis themselves." Among other things, the Israelis managed to obtain engineering blueprints for the entire reactor. On April 5, 1979, three days before the reactor's core was to be shipped to the Iraqis, a group of unidentified men managed to penetrate the high-security French nuclear production facility at La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon. They attached explosive charges...