Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public faith in the peso-down from 36 to the dollar a year ago to 320 last week-Argentines have devised various strategies for financial survival. To get around the government's fixed dollar exchange rate on exports, for instance, some companies arrange for inflated invoices on imports, collect excess dollars at the lower official rate, supposedly to pay the phony bills, then cash the difference on the free market. Many shopkeepers have two sets of books-one that lists transactions at official prices and is shown to government inspectors, and another with actual prices, usually much higher, that...
...their condition. Some, at least at first, are indignant. Alicia Kaye, office manager for a Los Angeles employment agency, reports that liberal-arts majors who are told of openings in insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just in case. There are graduates who grow frustrated and bitter, and there...
...bill also are internally inconsistent. One section would require the Government to spend as much as necessary-estimates range from a low of $12 billion all the way to $25 billion-to achieve a 3% unemployment rate. Another provision would require expenditures to match the revenues that Washington would collect at that rate, which would imply spending less than the Government is doing now or boosting taxes sharply. Neither would be the way to create jobs...
...After all," she pointed out, "All these folks who are worried about inflation, even the ones who collect unemployment and want jobs, they live like kings compared to the poor people in Sao Paolo...
...great deal of the Soviet effort in Congress takes place in the open-and is legal. Agents cover congressional hearings and collect reports and printed matter of all kinds. Higher-level Soviet agents work, legitimately and publicly, like regular lobbyists, trying to sell Congressmen and Senators the Soviet position on crucial strategic matters...