Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel engaging in so destructive a policy? Says one U.S. expert on the Middle East: "It's astonishing. The Israelis actually seem to think they are close to giving a knockout blow to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But if anything, P.L.O. morale is higher than before. Their strength has not even been touched." Since the latest wave of Israeli attacks coincided with the current diplomatic offensive of the P.L.O., some Western observers have concluded that Israel's real motive in Lebanon is a devious one: to make it impossible for P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat to pursue a moderate...
...successful society. With alarming swiftness, though, the Federal Republic is now outstripping its neighbors in a far less enviable category: the nation of achievers has become the Continent's biggest market for illegal heroin. So far this year, West German police have seized 116 kilograms of heroin, a higher figure than was reported by all the other countries in Western Europe combined. At least 430 people died of drug overdose in West Germany last year, more than an eightfold increase since 1970. This year promises to batter all previous records: 335 drug-related deaths have been reported through July...
...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...
Part of Europeans' gains have been wiped out by their higher taxes; a typical Belgian family earning $56,000 will keep no more than $32,000. But though their taxes are generally lower, Americans must shell out more of their incomes for medical and educational expenses, both of which are largely free in Europe. The net result is that many Europeans end up with somewhat fatter disposable incomes than Americans but they also face generally much higher prices. So how do they do it? How do they afford the rows of doubled-parked Mercedes and BMWs and the expensive...
...steps back from the inviting brink of fantasy. He retreats, in fact, to the drab reality of the 1950s, the time of his own spectacular debut as the author of Goodbye, Columbus. The new book retains the look, if not the actual furniture, of autobiography. Goodbye, Columbus is called Higher Education; its author is Nathan Zuckerman who, like Roth, was raised in a middle-class Jewish section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment, a tale of money, lawsuits and maternal sacrifice that upsets his parents and the pillars of their community. "Can you honestly say that...