Word: credos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once in office, Palme hopes to apply his party's free-spending credo as a panacea for Sweden's sluggish economy. He promised to cancel planned cuts in sick pay and to increase funding for child-care centers. Unemployment compensation and pensions will be raised to keep up with inflation. In addition, Palme has proposed a mammoth $320 million government investment scheme to build new roads, bridges and housing projects that he believes will generate up to 40,000 new jobs. To finance the programs, the Social Democrats want to hike the country's 21.5% sales...
...negotiate the first 35-hour work week and all but ban sweatshops in the garment industry. A volcanic anti-Communist liberal, he also established the first employer-financed workers' vacations, the first health and welfare fund, the first workers' retirement fund and the first severance pay. His credo: "You gotta operate a union with discipline, with logic-but also with a heart...
...paintings, "Soyer Since 1960," currently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past two decades in vigorous reaffirmation of his credo that "art must communicate, it must represent, it must describe and express people, their lives and times." As he grows older, the Russian-born master of American realism has undertaken ever larger canvases, while seeking more brilliant colors that might better represent the truth as he sees...
...both Tynan and Agate were Britons-and we are Americans. Director Coe, who is English himself, had to make numerous decisions about how best to present I Henry IV at Stratford-on-Housatonic rather Stratford-on-Avon. In his printed credo, Coe announces as his goal to "realize, to as great a degree as possible, the playwright's original intention." Fine, but Coe has proceeded to depart from his promise in several ways...
DIED. Nestor Chylak, 59, former dean of American League baseball umpires who won respect for his accurate calls and skill in handling irascible players; of an apparent heart attack; in Dunmore, Pa. Chylak, who would tolerate a player's profanity but not his physical abuse, once summarized his credo: "Put the words on me, but don't touch me or spit...