Word: currented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to appeal, denying that the circumstances of the present strike are the same as those of nine years ago. Whatever happens in the current strike, however, G.E. can hardly lose. The day after the workers walked out,Chairman Borch told a stockholders' meeting that prices of many products will be raised as soon as the dispute is settled. The company can then pass the price of the wage package right on to the consumers...
...warehouse receipts for the nonexistent salad oil of Speculator Anthony De Angelis. American Express in 1967 agreed to pay $60 million to settle creditors' claims, half immediately, the rest in annual installments of $5,000,000 each year through 1973. The payments do not reduce Amexco's current reported profits because they are charged against earnings retained from prior years, and the company's growth has given it enough earnings to provide cash for new adventures...
...society is responsible for the high abortion rate in this country. It's not just blind stupidity, the country is sick. We're afraid to touch each other, afraid to get close to each other, because of all the phony moralistic ideas about sex. Current books and movies flaunt sex in young people's faces, but at the same time the society is saying, it's wrong, don't do it. It's got people so hung up that they can't talk to each other. We have to face the fact that we're all sexual beings...
...Massachusetts' current law on abortion is potentially one of the most liberal in the United States. Sections 19 and 21 of Chapter 272 of the General Laws impose a criminal penalty on anyone who "unlawfully" uses instruments, etc., with intention to procure an abortion or who "sells, lends, gives away, etc. . . . any instrument for the prevention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion...
...also informed that in the upshot "development policy is consistently biased... against revolution as a means." Among the principal revolutions of current interest are those of a communist sort, and Western economists no doubt do tend to be unenthusiastic about such revolutions...