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...same status as U.S. producers." By selling to the U.S. instead of on the world market, Cuba last year got, in effect, a subsidy of "more than $150 million." In addition, a preferential tariff, 20% lower for Cuba than for sugar from other countries, gave Cuban exporters another bonus of almost $8,000,000. Said State: "It would be logical to conclude from Major Guevara's remarks that he considers that such 'enslavement' would end were we to abandon our preferential treatment as regards Cuban sugar and pay the lower world market price...
...officers due to go, the adjustment is going to be tough; in theoretically classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce veterans to settle in the labor-short central Asian "virgin lands," the state is offering free land, low-interest loans, and a bonus of 600 rubles ($60). Last week the first ex-servicemen arrived in the harsh pioneer land of Kazakhstan, where the Communist leader was fired recently after a quarter of the wheat crop went unharvested for lack of workers...
...ideal state's biggest taxpayers should be its biggest voters. The real fat-cat taxpayers would each get seven votes, the lower 40% brack-eteers only a vote apiece. But Author Hunt defends his system not as plutocracy but as incomeocracy: "It is the taxpayer who gets the bonus, not the rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with me . . .?' 'Yes, Achala...
...rules. Under the new system, each of Wisconsin's ten congressional districts will receive 2½ votes at the national convention, with five delegate-at-large votes going to the statewide winner. Under the old rules, each district was worth two votes, with the overall winner getting a bonus of ten delegate-at-large votes. (A 31st vote is split between the national committeeman, who favors Humphrey, and the national committeewoman, a Kennedy supporter...
...forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved in war." Finally, "when I found out I was not going to be hanged, I began to think about the rest of my life as a bonus to be wisely spent...