Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small heart for a hit man, a falling star for a kidnapper. Dade County Medical Examiner Joe Davis last month denounced Marielito murderers on a local TV show: "These guys are not even human. They're animals. Not even animals. That's an insult to the animal kingdom." The murder boom has filled existing morgue space; Davis rented a refrigerated hamburger van to accommodate the overflow...
...democracy, have traditionally given full employment top priority. The loss of a job in Europe also has more permanent consequences than in the U.S. Only 13.1% of the U.S.'s unemployed stay out of work for more than six months, but the proportion is 47% in the United Kingdom and 53.6% in France...
...United Kingdom. Critics now refer to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "Tina," an acronym of her repeated declaration that "there is no alternative" to her government's punishing policies. Although unemployment has more than doubled from 5.4% when she took office in May 1979 to 12.4% last month, Thatcher adamantly believes a decline in the inflation rate, now 11.5% annually, is a precondition to economic growth. "I did not promise a quick answer," she told Parliament during the Liverpool riots. She is fighting to hold average-wage increases to 4% for the country's 7 million public sector...
Holland is apparently unable to comprehend her peculiar place in the international world of politics--too small to dictate independent foreign policy and too large to have its economic and political movements ignored. As a political entity Holland is a relatively young country, formed as a kingdom in 1848, but the Dutch have an ancient cultural and moral heritage which often causes them to be overly vocal. Holland's recent disasters have resulted directly from a lack of vision and planning in the Foreign Office. The new building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now under construction, seems to lack...
...Treasury Department also admitted that since June 1974 the Saudis have reimbursed Washington for the salaries of 38 Treasury officials working on a joint U.S.-Saudi commission that helps the desert kingdom with some of its investment decisions...