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...years the U.S. had solved Iran's chronic financial crises by massive, sometimes indiscriminate outlays of cash (total economic and military aid in the last decade: more than $1 billion). But this year Washington had served notice that unless Iran modernized its government bureaucracy-about 40% of its operating expenses is spent on salaries-the U.S. would not continue to foot the bill...
...substantial interests in them. Idemitsu stock is owned 40% by the Idemitsu family and 60% by the company's employee welfare fund, which pays handsome benefits to workers upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial...
Damaging Chain. These two sets of events alone would be enough to explain why thousands of Americans are "lung cripples," suffering from what most U.S. doctors call pulmonary fibrosis and chronic emphysema. But the damaging chain of events runs...
...pals, the dusky boxer hustled them aboard a rush-hour "A" train to a subway station beneath Brooklyn's High Street station. Floyd scooted up a ladder to the dark cranny where 17 years ago. as a shy and unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else had found Floyd's hideaway. Rummaging around, he found a pilfered wallet left behind by a pickpocket. Clambering down from the unlit alcove, the champ brushed off the soot and sighed...
Seeking economic advice last week, John F. Kennedy asked Roger Blough over to the White House. The invitation aroused sardonic comment from businessmen around the country, but the problem at issue was one that concerned the chairman of the U.S. Steel Corp. no less than the President: the chronic U.S. gold drain...