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...treated much as if they were interchangeable automobile parts, and Dederich is certainly in the driver's seat. He makes the rules as he goes along, and the members never know what is coming next. "Chuck is marvelous," says Terri Haberman, 30, who has lived at Synanon for nine years. "He has this amazing quality of being able to articulate what we want to do before we even know what it is we want...
...work? The Department of Labor last week issued an updated edition of its Dictionary of Occupational Titles, used primarily by employment counselors. The 5-lb. catalogue defines, and assigns a nine-digit index number to each of 20,000 job titles, including such esoterica as sword swallower (159.647-010), rock breaker (770.687-034) and brassiere-cup-mold cutter...
...vigorous dissent to the French claim has been registered by Mauritius. 300 miles to the southeast. Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 77, insists that Tromelin "is part and parcel of our territory, and always has been.'' In fact, Mauritius' claim -dates back only to 1959. nine years before the nation won independence from Britain. Last year, after learning that France intended to cultivate the Tromelin turtles for soup and tortoise shells, Sir Seewoosagur handed a note to his French ambassador reaffirming Mauritian sovereignty. Among other "proofs," the Prime Minister cited some unique documents that the World Court...
West Germany is also running an international surplus, but unlike Japan, it maintains few barriers to imports. More to the point, West Germany's trade with the U.S. is several hundred million dollars in deficit, and the nine countries of the Common Market as a whole imported $3.6 billion more from the U.S. than they exported to it in the first nine months of this year. As a result, Europeans are understandably resentful of Washington's feeling that they are somehow or other sponging off U.S. expansion and are particularly wary of calls to pump up their...
...longterm debt has increased from $360 million to more than $1 billion over the past decade), Chrysler has had a curiously erratic record. Even though the industry has performed spectacularly this year, Chrysler's third-quarter earnings slumped 55.8%, compared with last year's. For the first nine months of 1977, Chrysler's profits were down almost 30%. Moreover, Chrysler expects losses of some $37 million in Great Britain, although part of that bill will be met by the British government...