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...With excess oil income, Iran is also undertaking aid and investment abroad. This year's expenditures include $700 million to the International Monetary Fund to assist nations with balance of payment problems and $350 million to the World Bank. Additionally, Iran this year has committed $7 billion worth of grants, loans and deposits against future purchases from a dozen countries, including Britain and France. For an estimated $100 million, the government recently bought 25.04% ownership of the steel-producing branch of West Germany's 162-year-old Krupp steel empire. In August the Shah endowed a million-dollar...
...coverage by 14 newspapers and magazines, Shaw cited several examples of fine, thoughtful journalism. On the whole, however, he concluded that the nation's best journals had approached euphoria in their upbeat reportage and commentary when Ford first took office. Partly as a result, there was an excess of righteous outrage when Ford astonished the press, and everyone else, by pardoning Richard Nixon in September. In the interim, insufficient attention was paid to the complexity of the nation's difficult economic problems...
...rather jarring effect of this rejection arises also from Bonnie Brewster's interesting but somewhat inconsistent interpretation of Kate. Pinter carefully prepares Kate's withdrawal from the tangled demands of her relationships, as the play unfolds. But Brewster's development of this side of Kate is hampered by an excess of vitality. Her surprising tenseness at the beginning of the play, while dramatically provocative, undercuts the numbed aloofness that is a necessary counter-balance to the prevailing tensions. Kate's shower in the second act cleanses her of the sordid jealousy displayed by the others, and leads...
...donor, rather than the recipient, must, in most cases, pay a federal tax on gifts in excess...
...cent, compared to a national rate of 14.5 per cent. "There are a lot of people defaulting today," R. Jerrold Gibson, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, said yesterday. The vast majority of defaults take place in vocational schools, Gibson said, where the default rate is in excess of 50 per cent...