Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great deal of the credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
...needs time to organize its election. The chief election commissioner has already started work, but the logistics involved mean a delay of three to four months. Meanwhile, the caretaker government can only administer existing laws. Without a Parliament, it cannot initiate policy. Yet India is in desperate need of firm government to tackle urgent economic problems, including inflation currently running at 15%. To add to India's troubles, Pakistan has not abandoned its efforts to acquire an enriched-uranium plant, a crucial step in developing the so-called Islamic Abomb...
Some seeming nonessentials, however, seem to remain much in demand. Says Lewis Katcher, a research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports...
...while surveys show that compared with America, living costs are up to 73% higher in Switzerland and about 40% higher in West Germany and France, it is also true that European salaries are occasionally richer. A recent study by a U.S. management consulting firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, calculates that the chief executive of a typical medium-size company in Germany earns 50% more than his U.S. counterpart, 40% more in Belgium and The Netherlands, and 20% more in France. Business International, a Geneva research firm, notes that in Switzerland today, a receptionist now gets $19,700 a year...
...spoof of corporate life called Nine to Five, which 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming, Actress Jane Fonda plays a secretary in a Los Angeles firm that is so large and anonymous that she and her water-cooler chums are not even sure what business it is in. However it does at the box office, the movie is sure to draw howls of pain from personnel officers. Reason: all over the country, companies are finding that despite today's near 6% unemployment rate, they are having to cope with a severe shortage of secretaries. That shortage...