Word: docks
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Koivisto is the first Social Democrat to be elected President in Finland, but party labels mean little in a country in which all major factions back the welfare state. What won the election for Koivisto was his likable image as a modest and occasionally irreverent individualist. Once a dock worker, he rose to become governor of the powerful Bank of Finland. Koivisto served two terms as Prime Minister, appointed by a man who was his opposite in temperament, the autocratic and short-tempered Kekkonen...
...freshman at college, I am disillusioned and disheartened by the situation presented in "Dock the Docs" [Dec. 21]. Today when students seek federally funded loans, they bear the burden of 19 years of mismanaged bureaucracy, and consequently many are denied government aid. Why stifle the innocent for the delinquency of others? Hara Levy Stanford, Calif...
...Requiring Soviet ships seeking permission to dock at U.S. ports to give 14 days' notice, instead of four days...
...atmosphere in the Pretoria courtroom last week was hardly serious. The five defendants, decked out in colorful beach shirts and khakis, smiled and waved to security policemen as they appeared briefly in the dock to be freed on bail. They had good reason to be happy. Despite international anger, the South African government opted to deal lightly, almost casually, with their crime: the hijacking of an Air India jetliner the previous week, after an abortive attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Seychelles...
...Tuesday morning, all federal employees were back at work. The bureaucrats who pay them computed that it would cost more to dock furloughed employees' pay than it would to meet their normal salaries. It was not clear what the fiasco had cost Congress in terms of its already low public esteem. The President's relations with Capitol Hill leaders, whom he had courted so effectively in the past with a soft sell, were surely damaged...