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...about 6,000. It is claimed, correctly, that the U.S. defense budget rose 13% between 1978 and 1980. But Moscow's pamphlet does not mention that for the two previous years U.S. defense spending rose a mere 3%, and it did not grow at all in the mid-1970s...
...written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist. In the mid-1970s he gave a series of concerts in upstate New York of 19th and 20th century American popular songs, and he owns an extensive collection of turn-of-the-century sheet music. He relaxes from his musical chores in his Greenwich Village high-rise at his own piano...
Lockheed flew into more turbulence during the mid-1970s, when it admitted making questionable overseas payments. The ensuing scandals rocked the Japanese and Italian governments, and in The Netherlands, the then queen's consort was forced to give up virtually all his military and business positions. The jumbo jet even gave Lockheed headaches when times were good. Orders poured in so fast in 1978 and 1979 that the company was forced to pay premium wages and materials prices to meet the unanticipated demand. The result: Lockheed lost $199 million on the TriStar last year, and the company...
Such employee benefits have dramatically increased relocation budgets for corporations. It currently costs about $30,000 to transfer an executive within the U.S., a nearly fourfold increase since 1973, according to the Relocation Council. As a result, many firms are cutting back on corporate moves. During the mid-1970s, IBM transferred 8,000 of its 157,000 domestic workers annually, and wags used to say that the company's initials stood for "I've Been Moved" rather than International Business Machines. But this year, though its work force has increased by about onequarter, the office equipment giant will...
...mid-1970s, fundamentalist Christians began using "secular humanism" as a term of opprobrium for nonreligious education. It has grown into a New Rightist code word for the precepts and practices of almost anyone this side of Communism who disagrees with them, including liberals, feminists, atheists, civil libertarians, internationalists...