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...slide of Britain, once the world's leading industrial power, into apparently chronic economic sickness is a development alarming to all the West. Rather than recite only the surface facts and statistics of crippling inflation, union demands and slumping productivity, TIME editors felt that a real understanding of the situation required telling the human side of the story. Therefore, the special report that appears in the Economy & Business section focuses on workers and bosses at one of Britain's major firms. Like the Bellamys and their servants in the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs, they cannot live apart, though...
...members discovered that many investors were unwilling to buy their offerings. Even though Big Mac bonds were secured by revenues from the city sales and stock-transfer taxes, they dropped 10% in value after they were offered on the market. Investors were plainly worried that New York's chronic inability to control its spending would jeopardize the value of the bonds...
...latest economic and political crises compounded Nigeria's more chronic problems, which include a notorious degree of corruption-known locally as "dash"-among military and government officials. As one Nigerian newspaper editor recently observed, "If original sin goes back to the Garden of Eden, then Adam must have been a Nigerian." Although Gowon is considered irreproachably honest, he was unable to control the widespread graft that helped prevent equitable distribution of the nation's oil wealth ($8 billion for 1974) to most of the 79 million Nigerians, who must still survive on an average per capita income...
...what doctors call fetal alcohol syndrome was spurred in 1973, when Drs. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the Lancet on eight children with similar birth and growth defects. Their investigation revealed that all were born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics...
...thievery and released eleven times in 18 months without ever going to trial. The same is true for juvenile criminals. A study done by Marvin E. Wolfgang, a sociologist and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 627 out of 10,000 youths in Philadelphia became chronic offenders. They were responsible for two-thirds of the violent acts and 52% of all offenses committed by the group over an eight-year period...