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...sovereignty of the West Bank. What we say is, let's discuss it toward the end of the five-year transition period. During the five-year period, we are going to pay more than half the price the Arabs are asking for? a down payment, a very substantial one???abolishing the military regime. I believe any Arab country, if it knows the other alternative is just to go on with things as they are, should accept that. We are not ready to make a precommitment. After five years, God knows where Sadat will be, where Begin will...
Since some transfers are inevitable, companies are trying to make the moves as painless as possible. Many companies use elaborate relocation services that take care of all arrangements, including the sale of the old house and the purchase of the new one???at no loss to the transferred executive. Raises are generally fattened, particularly if the move is to an unattractive or expensive area such as New York City or Cleveland. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. automatically raises the base pay of managers sent to areas where living costs are higher than the national averages. The cost of living...
...Geneva, I.L.O. staffers in the organization's new $65 million building are expecting the worst from Washington. There are rumors that Director General Blanchard is planning to fire 400 staffers, some of whom get lucrative salaries of from $24,000 to $60,000 annually. Yet no one???not Kissinger two years ago, nor the Carter Administration now, nor even George Meany?seriously wants the U.S. to pull out of the I.L.O., at least permanently. Critics do see a threatened U.S. withdrawal as a prod for necessary reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political...
Sociobiology seems to have an explanation?usually a deflating one???for nearly every human phenomenon. Maternal love is a genetic investment policy. Friendship and law are probably rooted in reciprocal altruism and its calculus of self-interest. The socialization of children, at home and school, is as much forced indoctrination in reciprocal altruism as it is genuine teaching. Ethnic pride (as well as racism) can be viewed as an irrational generalization of the biological tendency to distrust strangers and prefer the company of individuals who look like ourselves. Says Wilson: "We are likely to see some of our most exalted...
...lace bugs on pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during the 19th century, and one???Paris green?was used against the Colorado potato beetle in the U.S. during the 1860s...