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Ever since 1973, Witteveen has been like a busy fireman, damping the flames of inflation here, assisting dying economies there, and acting at times as if he were the head of a supranational central bank. Earlier this year the IMF provided a $3.9 billion emergency loan to Britain, which was strapped at the time with an enormous balance of payments deficit...
...studies show that either affects life spans or accident rates. The investigations are sometimes shoddy because many firms employ part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York that the editor...
...Twins mounted a comeback in the bottom half of the inning, loading the bases with none out off starter Reggie Cleveland. At that point, though, manager Don Zimmer made the call for the fireman...
Beep. Beep. A small black box in the pocket of an Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...illness. Many ignore the extent to which inflation is reducing their ability to charge luxuries by raising the price of necessities. Most delinquent debtors never even add up what they owe until they are forced to, and then they are stunned by the totals. When Kevin White, 33, a fireman, and his wife Sharon, 30, a dental assistant, turned to the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New York in 1975, Sharon thought they owed about $5,000 to $8,000; Kevin guessed $8,000 to $10,000. The actual total...