Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems clear that without internal and external pressure, the Nationalist regime will not find it in its interest to make substantive concessions to the black majority. By threatening the very foundation of white prosperity, continuous and substantial capital outflow is one of our best hopes for inducing the white population, or at least certain critical factions within that population, to begin good faith negotiations with the leaders of the African, "colored" and Asian majority. But in the event that accommodation is not achieved, at the very least the scaling down of multinational corporate presence would put the regime...
...conference suffered from a basic flaw: on most campuses, conference planners could not reach the students as a whole or generate sufficient interest to involve more than a handful of people, almost all of whom became delegates. How could delegations hope to implement the conference's policies, and how could they pretend to speak for their schools...
...some preliminary digging, Chung discovered a little-known ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Baird versus Belotti in January 1977. The court ruled that, in all cases except abortion, a "mature minor" may receive confidential medical treatment where it is in his/her best interest not to notify the parents...
...When interest rates decline and inflation moderates later this year, the long bearish stock market should rise. The time is not yet at hand, warn TIME'S economists, who recommend putting investment money into high-yielding Treasury bills until the recession bites. Even then, the bulls may not let out a full-throated roar. Warns Pechman: "The fact that we are suggesting that late this year may be a time to buy equities does not mean that equity prices will go through the roof." But, says Beryl Sprinkel, "the cheapest assets in this world today are U.S. stocks...
Both condo and co-op owners enjoy the same attractive tax advantages as homeowners in being able to deduct interest and property taxes. But condos in many areas are appreciating faster in today's churning market because buyers can get mortgage financing at cheaper rates than co-op buyers, who must take out higher interest personal loans because they own nonmortgageable shares instead of property. Co-ops are more restrictive than condos; the building's board of directors must approve a potential buyer before he can acquire shares, whereas a condo can be sold to whomever the owner...