Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance that their precautions may fail by buying K and R (for kidnaping and ransom) insurance policies sold by Lloyd's of London and some oth er companies, including several U.S. firms. Insurance officials do not speak much about this business, fearing that more countries will follow Italy in banning K and R policies on the ground that they encourage kidnapings. But some brokers say that sales of such policies on the London insurance market alone have more than doubled in the past two years, with as much as 70% of Lloyd's K and R business coming...
...newspaper, you decide, is too depressing. Besides, it's getting late, so you trash it, fight off the little chill that runs up your spine as you sense the cold stares that follow your back across the lobby, and head out into the street to look for a cab. There are none, of course--South Jamaica, despite the presence of the railroad station, is not a smart place to cruise around looking for fares--so you prop yourself, more than a bit self-consciously, against the wall of the Rip-Off Bar and Grille, and wait...
...MISTER?" abroad black face inquires, and your eyes follow his extended hand to a junkyard-special '67 Chevy that is obviously suffering in the heat. Whatever color it may have been originally, time has faded it to a sort of nondescript grey. You start to move, then remember--it's not yellow, it has no medallion form the Taxi Commission, it's a gypsie cab. A hundred newspaper headlines fire the peculiar sort of panic that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot by this...
Union leaders complain that far more is being asked of wage earners than of anyone else. One contentious point is Carter's request that top company executives restrict their salary increases to 5% as a symbolic gesture for rank-and-file workers to follow. Complains United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "A 5% limit for people like General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, who makes just short of $1 million a year, is no great concession to fighting inflation...
...salvos of cannon fire traditionally open the Stratford Festival in Ontario. From now to Oct. 18, salvos will follow in the form of productions mounted by the festival's indefatigable artistic director, Robin Phillips. Herewith, a trio of openers...