Word: jans
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...Jan. 7,1949. The war of independence ends, with Israel having gained 30% more territory than originally allocated to it. Transjordan annexes the West Bank. Some 750,000 Arab refugees have fled from Israel to neighboring states...
Another factor has been the increase in the minimum wage, which went from $2.65 to $2.90 on Jan. 1. Higher fuel prices and gasoline shortages may also hurt the chains because people will be less inclined to drive out for a meal. Indeed there has been a quick rise in supermarket sales of fast-food fixin's to prepare at home...
...kill the legislation last year, the Administration has vastly modified this session's bill. Last year's plan would have clamped a limit of 9% on the annual increase in revenues that hospitals could receive from bed patients. This time, the Administration would give the hospitals until Jan. 1, 1980, to prove that they can hold the amount of money they spend, rather than take in, to an annual increase of no more than 9.7%, plus an adjustment that would take into account some inflation factors. (Studies show that hospital revenues and expenses climb and fall at similar...
...your article on the offer by West Germany's Tengelmann Group to buy A&P stock [Jan. 29], you observed that "the German company can certainly teach A&P much." Why? Whatever happened to "Grandma...
Cheers to the forward-thinking divorcees who magnanimously decide to share their children as you described in "One Child, Two Homes" [Jan. 29]. I must disagree, however, with state legislators who support bills presuming joint custody. For the child whose divorced parents retain animosity toward one another, I can imagine no greater hell than being shuttled between them weekly...