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...support for new credit to his country. He warned that debtor nations were on a "very short lifeline" and "being pushed to the end of their payment capacity." But Funaro received little encouragement from the G-7 representatives, who maintain that Brazil must reform its economy and curb its rampaging 600% inflation rate...
...that did not prevent 11,000 workers from walking off their jobs last week in Yugoslavia to protest measures that have effectively frozen wages for public employees. The belt-tightening moves, which included a rollback of recent pay raises, began in February when Prime Minister Branko Mikulic tried to curb an annual inflation rate that approaches nearly 100%. The economic measures are so unpopular that even Communist Party officials criticized them, and some observers predicted further strikes when 3.5 million more workers are affected this month...
...quality of Rhodes' narrative history resides not only in the grandeur of its structure but in its details: Hungarian-born Physicist Leo Szilard stepping off a London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral...
...state attorneys general last week voted unanimously to adopt merger guidelines that are stricter than those used by the Justice Department. Many states may now try to block some deals, no matter what the Federal Government says. Still, any legislation and legal action to curb megadeals will take time. Until then, says Wallace Turner, a broker at Manhattan-based Smith Barney, "takeover plays are alive and well." And plenty of stockbrokers, investors, traders and dealmakers intend to get in on the action while it lasts...
...rotating wheels on the bottom of the cart had gotten stuck and the poor old girl was pushing it around in circles in the middle of the street. Gallantly I offered her assistance, staring down psychotic foreign-born cabdrivers until we reached the safety of the curb...