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...monetary cost of the war effort was not yet seriously bothering the Argentines, although it would surely have long-range adverse effects. Over the weekend foreign ministers of the European Community were expected to renew their month-long economic sanctions against Argentina...
Guyana. In defiance of an 1899 arbitration agreement, Venezuela claims the mineral-rich Essequibo region of Guyana, which makes up two-thirds of the former British colony. Venezuela has refused to renew a soon-to-expire 1970 protocol shelving the dispute...
...years of operation. Doctors, lawyers and accountants have written confessional letters that would jeopardize their careers; others have penned self-incriminating letters to district attorneys; one Jewish man wrote out a check to the American Nazi Party. Contracts run three months and volunteers are encouraged to renew them. In all but four cases, patients have lived up to their vows. The clinic duly executed the contract on all four delinquents; two subsequently returned to the clinic to try again. The failure rate was much greater for the 76 users who came to the clinic but did not sign contracts: none...
...battle to make sales." She recalls the bargaining for one house: "It was a $78,000 home with a $50,000 down payment and the rest in loans. The original mortgage was at 8.5%, but the bank said it wouldn't renew at that level. The buyers and the bank finally settled at 13.5%. We had listed the property for two years and almost lost it over the financing...
...ASCs have proved to be a flop. Financial institutions were expecting All Savers deposits of up to $250 billion by the end of this year, but the total so far has reached only $46 billion, and customer interest is waning fast. There is no strong sentiment in Congress to renew the program when it expires in December...