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...generally must pay off the debts within the same fiscal year. In inflationary times, these cities have had to raise taxes or reduce payrolls and services to live within their incomes. Following are reports on the 12 biggest U.S. cities, except for New York and Washington, D.C., the eleventh largest, which has been excluded because of its unique dependence on the Federal Government. The cities are ranked according to 1975 population as estimated by Standard Rate & Data Service...
...give an account of what was being painted in Europe. The reason, as everyone "knew," was that European art no longer mattered. Paris was over; London, a village; only New York had a hammer lock on history. This eminently questionable belief, fathered by chauvinism and fed by the largest promotional apparatus in the history of art, lay at the root of American art politics in the '60s and formed the taste of a generation of museumgoers. Now the retreat is on. An exhibition called "European Painting in the '70s" opened last week at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...been forbidden since 1914 by Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. Yet the Justice Department suspects that as many as 400 banks and insurance companies may share directors. Its two civil suits filed last week name the Prudential Insurance Company of America, in Newark, the nation's largest insurance company, which has on its board a director of the San Francisco-based Bank of America, the largest U.S. bank, and another from New York-headquartered Bankers Trust Co. The suits further named three directors of San Francisco's Crocker National Bank, who also sit on the boards...
...more quickly, for the large white trade unions will not accept a decrease in the wage gap. The attitudes of most whites toward the improvement of the Africans' condition have not changed substantially over the years. One study showed last year that while the Afrikaner youth-Afrikaners are the largest voting bloc in the white population--are "slightly more pragmatic" in their attitudes toward African development, they are "certainly no less discriminatory" in their views on racial policy...
...UNITED STATES is the second largest foreign investor in South Africa, with Britain only slightly ahead. The rate of return on foreign capital invested in South Africa is 18.6 per cent, compared to a world average return of 11 per cent. Nearly every large American corporation has investments in South Africa, for the forced cheap labor insures a high profit rate, and the government has done its best to attract investment. Although most American countries pulled out of Namibia last year when it seemed likely that the U.N. would expropriate all exports from Namibia, the government in South Africa seems...