Word: frees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli is also on trial-ex-El Al Security Man Mordechai Rahamim, who jumped from the plane and shot one of the raiders. While free on $23,000 bail, he has been serving as Premier Golda Meir's personal bodyguard. Advised by a battery of lawyers that includes one of the Eichmann prosecutors, he denied charges of manslaughter "under extenuating circumstances," maintaining that he had fired in self-defense. Witnesses claim, however, that the Arab had already been disarmed...
...interest rates of 2.45%. But the rise in rates and the concurrent drop in bond prices have speeded up enormously since the current inflation began in 1965-and especially this year. Last week, for example, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority sold $137 million worth of bonds at a tax-free interest yield of 7%, compared with a 5⅞ yield on bonds that it had sold four months earlier. Interest rates on high-grade corporate bonds are threatening to go above 9%. The yield on bellwether U.S. Treasury bonds maturing in 1992 has climbed to 6.72%, and the price...
...much of the world, Scandinavia, rather than the U.S., represents the ideal of an economic Utopia. Sweden has the world's second highest per capita income; Denmark, Norway and Finland also rank high. All four are free of slums, hunger and extreme poverty. All enjoy steady economic growth combined with full employment. By contrast, the U.S. is beset by labor unrest, rising unemployment and slow growth. How do the Scandinavians do so much better...
ORGANIZATION: Scandinavian unions are organized in large groupings that minimize jurisdictional squabbles. Unions do not try to raid each other for members or to leapfrog each other's gains. Secure in their jobs, labor leaders are free from rank-and-file pressure to win ever higher wage settlements...
...offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...