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...bothered Britons was Wilson's drastic program to rescue the pound: the six-month freeze on wages, prices and dividends, to be followed by another six months of "restraint." His plan angered almost everyone, from 23,000 doctors on Britain's health plan, who were required to forgo a 15% salary increase, to the 25,000-member civil service union, whose newspaper called Wilson's measures "a monstrous breach of faith." The powerful Trades Union Congress reluctantly agreed to continue to support Wilson's wage policy, but discontent is so great within its member unions that...
...jury is a relative rarity throughout the world. Apart from English-speaking countries, it exists in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway and some Swiss cantons. Indeed, 80% of the world's criminal jury trials take place in the U.S. Even at that, because most defendants plead guilty and forgo trial or choose to be tried by a judge alone, the U.S. actually produces only 60,000 criminal jury trials a year. Moreover, the frequency of jury trials varies widely-from only three per 100,000 people in Connecticut, to 144 in Georgia...
...keep up with demand despite shortages of skilled labor, many companies this year will forgo customary plantwide vacation shutdowns. Machine-tool manufacturers, jet-engine builders and even golf-club makers are swamped with orders. The stock market also perked up last week, prompting talk among analysts of a traditional summer rally. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 17 points to 894, its biggest gain in six weeks...
Last week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
...been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians get 4F ratings from finance companies...