Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the real shark is about 16 ft. long, and the fictional great white in Jaws no less than 24, Rizzo's diminutive height would make the real fish look bigger. Rizzo understood all this. He did not count, however, on the fervor of the great white. Beginning his first descent, he watched one shark attack the Taylors' boat. Vexed, it sideswiped Rizzo, ripped his cage from its cable and took it to the bottom. Carl shot out of the water and headed for cover...
...some countries-even those with strict laws against bribery-questionable practices have become institutionalized. Saudi Arabian law has stern penalties for bribe takers, yet some American executives say that any company seeking a Saudi contract must count on adding 10% for graft to the stated price. One U.S. executive tells of paying $3 million in bribes to win a $7 million contract in Iran. In Indonesia, the President's wife, Ibu Tien Suharto, is widely known as "Ibu Ten Percent" for the rake-offs she has reportedly demanded from businesses operating there. The South Korean government lately has openly...
...discovered. The Internal Revenue Service, however, could become more inquisitive about the fees paid by U.S. companies to foreign agents. If the IRS accepts them as legitimate business expenses, then any bribes passed out by the agents are in effect half paid by the Federal Government, since they count as deductions from the earnings on which American corporations must...
...about "accomplishing work which I had begun to feel was long overdue." The best early result was the superb study of the exquisite Symbolist movement that was to become his first major book, Axel's Castle. ("Living? We'll leave that to the servants," said decadent Count Axel.) This departure exacted its melancholy price. As the decade ended, Wilson was falling away from old companions, from the "outlaw" life of the Village, from youth. The mood was summed up by his favorite cousin Sandy Kimball, a schizophrenic whom Wilson visited in an institution: "Life's all right...
...York City, for example, private businesses will offer 10,000 to 12,000 summer jobs to disadvantaged youths this year, v. 25,000 in 1974, through the National Alliance of Businessmen, which sponsors the program. Even that estimate may be overly optimistic: to date, the N.A.B. can count pledges of only 7,000 jobs in the city. Nationally, the N.A.B. expects 200,000 job offers, a drop of more than 25,000 from last summer...