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...attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city's fringes is already in the works. Meanwhile, more Greeks...
...account. Savers will also be able to buy a five-year certificate pegged to the average five-year Treasury Note rate, currently 9.2%; interest on the new certificate will be 1.25% less than that rate, or 1% less if bought at a savings bank. In addition, the $1,000 minimum for certain high-interest certificates of deposit will be cut in half or, in some cases, dropped altogether. Finally, regular savings accounts will pay an extra half percent bonus on the minimum balance held over twelve months...
...legislation the Faculty completed yesterday will increase professors' participation in tutorials. It requires each faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial per term...
...reason is simply that voluntary enlistments are not supplying the necessary numbers of servicemen and reservists. Despite good pay ($419 a month minimum for a private) and even enlistment bonuses ($1,000 to $3,000), recruiting drives fell 10% short of meeting their goals in the last quarter of 1978. Far more worrisome, the Army's reserves are shockingly below strength. The Army's Individual Ready Reserve, composed of men who have completed their active duty but are subject to quick call-up, is supposed to number 700,000, but actually has fewer than 200,000. That shortage...
Working as an associate at the Wall Street law firm of Bass and Marshall is a curious sort of servitude. The associates are liveried in Brooks Brothers suits, their glass-box sweatshop has Oriental rugs, and the minimum wage is $27,000 a year. If they slave night and day for eight years, they may ascend to partnership and gain the privilege of exploiting other associates. Along the way, their brains turn into stuffed briefcases, and their souls are lost to mean ambition...