Word: cash
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...rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy but also triggered a violent racial feud between his 320,000 East Indian followers and the 200,000 Negroes...
...Detroit court, if relatives or friends agree to pay the amount set as bail should the defendant take it on the lam, the defendant may be released in the custody of those relatives or friends -or even of himself. No cash is lodged with the court...
...organize local mental-health facilities, now has centers in half its counties. But by far the most important role for the states under the new federalism is to serve, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, as "the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns." Washington may provide the cash and the broad concept, but after that it is the states' job to fashion effective programs in such critical areas as welfare, housing, air and water pollution and commuter transit...
...then, are the states to raise the cash? Already nearly 95% of all U.S. consumers pay state sales taxes, so that lode is just about exhausted. Most state governments could probably squeeze out several million dollars a year in additional revenue by making their real estate assessments, now generally unrealistic, conform to true values. The 17 states that still have no income tax have an obvious source of added funds. In 15 states, changes could be made in constitutions that prohibit local communities from investing their idle cash, an archaism that costs them as much as $100 million a year...
Viet Nam is an obvious, perhaps overly simplistic excuse for a complex and chronic problem. Yet Europe's conservative bankers are sympathetic to the U.S.'s wartime payments plight. With the exception of the French, they have no current plans to cash in most of their greenbacks for U.S. gold, a move that would cause a run on the dollar. They keep pointing out, however, that the U.S. could and should do more to balance its books. Said Bundesbank President Karl Blessing last week: "The raising of the discount rate last December was a step in this direction...