Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the machinery for handling such a tax did not exist, Callaghan handed the job to the Ministry of Social Security, which will collect S.E.T. funds by selling stamps to be affixed to national-insurance cards. But the ministry has no ready way of determining which company rates help and...
1,000 Bureaucrats. Obvious service industries, from banking to barbering, will pay the tax and forget it. But other companies can apply to the Ministry of Labor or the Ministry of Agriculture for refunds. Businesses adjudged to be in manufacturing will get back the money they paid, plus 30%. Another...
Sir: I was highly pleased with the excellent job you did on Los Angeles. We are in similar businesses in that normally we hear the gripes, seldom do we receive kudos. I doff my hat.
> In Norway, big and small businesses this summer are getting bleak answers when they make loan applications as longtime bank customers: "Sorry, but we don't have money."
Carli's policies were not without side effects. As he says, rather ruefully: "We have saved the lira and stabilized the economy-but we've left a lot of corpses in the streets." Among them were many small, inefficient businesses that died when their credit was cut off...