Word: guests
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Despite the spreading upswing, however, Western Europe continues to suffer from high unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to remain at 10% in 1984 and decline next year by a mere half a percentage point. Michael Emerson, Chief Forecaster for the Commission of the European Communities and a guest at last week's meeting, noted that Europe's "non-performance" in creating new jobs was becoming dramatic. Emerson said that the rigidity of the European labor market, where unions are strong enough to make layoffs extremely difficult, have raised real wage costs over the past ten years...
...City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing of a police station. He and the husband talk politics; the wife, increasingly unsettled for reasons of her own, reports the guest to the white authorities...
Washington Bureau Office Manager Emily Friedrich has served as a general coordinator of the San Francisco operation, negotiating TIME'S space at the Moscone Center convention site and arranging the venue for the 1,200-guest party that Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and the editors of TIME will give on the eve of the convention...
...have a guest in your house, the first week you have breakfast and the talk is friendly," explains Jorge Arturo Reina, leader of a dissident faction of Honduras' ruling Liberal Party. "After a month, your wife begins to ask when he is leaving. The second month, you ask him directly what his plans are." Nor is any foreign military presence likely to be popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras...
Honduras maintains, in addition, grave reservations about the uninvited friends its guest has brought along. The Tennessee-size nation of 4 million has during the past year been crowded with soldiers from three foreign countries. Apart from U.S. troops, Honduras has provided a home for thousands of contras, whose hit-and-run operations along its borders have served only to inflame the threat of Nicaraguan retaliation. At the U.S.-run training camp in Trujillo, meanwhile, the Americans have been graduating twice as many soldiers from neighboring El Salvador as they have Hondurans, in an effort to bolster that country...