Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the past few years, it has limited to $100 the amount of goods and souvenirs that tourists can bring back duty-free from abroad, put a tax of up to 15% on purchases of foreign securities, twice increased its central-bank interest rates, stiffened its taxes on the profits...
Sir: The letter of Spruille Braden Jr. [Dec. 25] gives an impression about the International Executive Service Corps that should be corrected. It is the purpose of IESC to assist those businesses in developing countries that are unable to employ qualified advisers. IESC will not, therefore, confront management consultants with...
Died. Andres Soriano, 66, Philippine industrialist-financier who built a personal fortune estimated at $80 million, first as president of the family-owned San Miguel Brewery, then as chief stockholder of an ever-proliferating flock of businesses that included at one time or another the Philippine Air Lines, the Philippines...
Histadrut, literally "the organization," is really far more than a union: it is big business. Through a holding company, Hevrat Ovdim, it controls 2,000 Israeli businesses and farm cooperatives, employs a quarter of Israel's 800,000 wage earners, grows 75% of the country's food and...
Nevertheless, the government firmly intends to maintain its ceilings, is adding a carrot to match its stick. If restaurateurs hold the line, their taxes-which of course they only pay sporadically anyway-maybe scaled down from the present 8.5% of gross turnover to the 4.25% enjoyed by less artistic businesses...