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Feudal Loyalty. In the first phase of local elections, 1,004 villages will elect councils of six to twelve members, with the candidate receiving the largest vote becoming chairman of the village. The councils will restore a large measure of long-lost self-rule to the villagers, since they will be empowered to make decisions in some 15 different spheres, ranging from taxation to school construction. They will be able to spend up to $425 on their own; larger sums must be discussed with province chiefs or Saigon. As the next step, 4,487 hamlets (subdivisions of villages) will elect...
Latin v. Cyrillic. The target of Tito's wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...data demonstrate the gap between potential and performance, Among the total sample, it was the psychiatric dropouts who showed the largest gap between prl and actual rank list
...himself as "a practicing Scotsman," and in small ways he certainly is. He has been known to spend five hours going over the cost of Xerox copies of company documents. To inhibit gabby long-distance telephone calls, he gave his aides three-minute egg timers. Yet Missouri's largest employer spends lavishly where it counts: on new technology. Since the company's birth, McDonnell has poured 83% of its profits into research and expansion. For his reward, he has earned the steadiest profit rise of any major company in a roller-coaster business where losses come easily and disaster often...
...guet Aircraft, second largest French planemaker after Dassault. Floirat is under Gaullist pressure to sell Bréguet to Dassault, and will soon do so. "If I had enough money," he grumbles, "I'd buy out Dassault...