Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a summons home for the 13-year veteran of Time Inc. Son of one of Poland's most distinguished poets, Wierzynski was born in Warsaw only 2½ months before the Germans invaded. Though he left his homeland in 1946 for Switzerland and, seven years later, the United States, he has returned to Poland often, and family members proved to be good sources on this particular story. "Before leaving Washington," recalls Wierzynski, "I debriefed my mother, who had met the then Bishop Wojtyla several times while my parents lived in Rome." Later, in Warsaw, Wierzynski sought...
...wall will be the latest in fence technology: a 6-in. concrete base surmounted by 4 ft. of galvanized steel grating and 6 ft. of tightly woven chain links. Said George Norris, Houston manager for Anchor Post Products, Inc., which will build the fence for $2,015,000: "It's the heaviest construction I've ever seen on a fence." Because the grating is razor sharp, Norris added, anyone climbing the fence barefoot would "leave his toe permanently embedded...
...wait to receive the dollars, which by then might be worth fewer yen, the company quite probably will immediately sell $1 million for as many yen as it can get, with the dol lars to be delivered in 30 days. U.S.-based multinationals do essentially the same thing. Hercules Inc., a major chemical company, in 1971 negotiated a five-year loan in Swiss francs, on terms that appeared to be favorable. But by 1976, the dollar had plunged so much against the franc that Hercules had to shell out twice as many dollars as it had bargained for to meet...
...rates are on the way, even though Reserve Chairman William Miller has said that borrowing costs are at or near their peaks. Henry Kaufman, a top money analyst at Salomon Brothers, believes the prime rate could be as high as 12% in 1979. Economist Allen Sinai of Data Resources, Inc., figures on a recession if the prime rate reaches 11% and the Fed funds rate...
...Gerhard Neumaier, president of Buffalo's Ecology and Environment, Inc., participation in the mission was a last desperate attempt to break into a market that for four years had rebuffed him. A specialist in analyzing the environmental ramifications of projects ranging from dams to industrial parks, Neumaier in 1974 founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless...