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...Ohio, Celeste made permanent a temporary 50% personal income tax hike passed by former Republican Governor James Rhodes and, on top of that, steered through a 40% increase. Blanchard last spring engineered a 38% Increase in personal income tax, with provisions for a partial rollback...
Work sharing, however, seems so far to be more successful in the U.S., where it is voluntary, than in Europe, where it is official policy. During the last recession, 134,275 workers in Arizona, California and Oregon participated in work-sharing programs that permitted them to get partial unemployment-insurance payments. An employee who works 20% fewer hours may thus lose only 8% of total compensation. At Signetics, a California electronics firm, some 4,000 employees spent fewer hours on the job in 1981 to avoid layoffs. Last year about 2,000 workers took part in the program...
...played the austere, ironic butler in Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx...
...back as the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan pledged to keep international politics out of the grain trade. It was a hard promise to fulfill. Under pressure from U.S. farmers, he removed the partial embargo in April 1981. But that December, the White House saw the imposition of martial law in Poland as reason enough to bar grain negotiations with the Soviets. This April, though martial law was still in effect, the President gave the green light to begin the negotiations that resulted in the grain deal. Last week's successful talks coincided with another sign that Washington is ready...
...helicopter pilot who flew a solitary mission over Port Stanley, a wounded commando who stayed behind to cover a comrade's escape. By contrast, Argentine forces are generally, and perhaps unfairly, depicted as inept and their leaders as divided and squabbling. Yet if Hastings and Jenkins are partial to the home team, they can also be critical: of the Royal Navy's tendency to act without consulting its sister services, of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's inability to avoid hostilities in the first place. The authors do, however, applaud the Prime Minister's Churchillian tenacity once...