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...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 soapbox. There is a dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull...
...powerboat, slitting his throat, chopping up his body and feeding the pieces to the sharks. The FBI intervened. Another FBI wiretap overheard Torello telling how he had hung William Jackson, a 350-lb. loan shark, on a meat hook and tortured him with an electric prod. "He was on that thing three days before he croaked," Torello said excitedly. "He was floppin' around...
...that hook. We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin...
...whether what is left of the stimulus program is enough to cut the nation's jobless rate below 7%. Administration policymakers insist that it will. But if the economy does keep recovering it will be as a result of its own vitality rather than of any major prod from Washington...
...biggest fear holding down investment is of a renewal of inflation to double-digit levels. Once a prod to "buy now before the price goes up," inflation has become a brake on capital spending. Says M. Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Manhattan economic consultants: "An inflationary environment makes calculating rates of return on new investment difficult, even though profits as a whole are likely to rise as inflation advances...