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...people who live in the neighborhood of Central Square aren't particularly faithful to the business area of their community. They pick up everyday commodities there, but Watertown, Arlington, Somerville and Boston rake in their share of Cambridge clientele also. The Central Square Association of Business and Professionals, Inc., is trying to deal with this problem and ethnic Santas are part of the solution. The organization has been around since 1934, but membership has doubled over the past year, to allow for seven committees with five to twelve members apiece. There are plenty of women active in business in Central...
...contract must count on adding 10% for graft to the stated price. One U.S. executive tells of paying $3 million in bribes to win a $7 million contract in Iran. In Indonesia, the President's wife, Ibu Tien Suharto, is widely known as "Ibu Ten Percent" for the rake-offs she has reportedly demanded from businesses operating there. The South Korean government lately has openly asked foreign corporations for contributions to national defense in lieu of raising taxes; Herbert Telshaw Jr., senior vice president of General Motors Korea, last week openly delivered a check...
Knee-Jerk Cycle. "A rake's progress of this nature could not continue for long," warned Healey in spelling out the details of an austerity program that placed stiff taxes on items ranging from cigarettes to sewing machines. "If people insist on paying themselves more than they're earning, somehow or other the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whoever he is, has got to take it away again or the whole thing will blow up." Although he stopped short of advocating statutory wage controls, Healey further outraged the unions by offering a budget that will in effect allow unemployment...
...point being that, unlike other businesses, Steve's is not run on the philosophy that "The customer is always right." It isn't a mammoth bureaucratic operation that bends over backwards to seek out business, keep it and rake in money...
...crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers to a V.L.C.C. as "she," and sadly notes the loss of rake and sheer in modern tankers' lines...