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When one compares the major economies, those who pay the least are not the Europeans but the Japanese. Their total tax payments amount to only 26.1% of gross domestic product, and the Japanese resist even those with tenacity and skill. They still maintain a largely cash economy (checks are almost unknown), particularly at the retail level, where Japan has about 100,000 more stores than...
...scams involving FBI agents dressed as Arab sheiks offering U.S. Congressmen large sums of money for their votes on crucial issues. The strategy also seems doubtful--Snickers or perhaps peanut M&Ms would seem like better choices. But despite these drawbacks, the scam succeeded. Wilson and Ferguson could not resist the urge familiar to every late-night paper writer. They decimated the package of KitKats as well. (To their credit, the two scoundrels knew their limit; when the inspectors sent down a second decoy package, containing a mint set of U.S. Bicentennial coins and silver dollars, the workers examined...
...President, whose natural inclinations run to hard anti-Soviet rhetoric anyway, needed little urging. In a fire-and-brimstone speech last week to a convention of evangelical Christians in Orlando, Fla., he decried Communism as "the focus of evil in the modern world" and summoned the U.S. to resist "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire...
...went on for months and months." lacocca inherited the design of the front-wheel-drive K-cars. Though they were not brought out until the fall of 1980, they had been practically ready to go into production when he arrived two years earlier. (He still could not resist tinkering with the grille and adding louvers to the windows shortly before the designs were locked up.) Chrysler had botched the launch of the luxury New Yorker series in 1978, and the memory haunted lacocca. Now, with buyers clamoring for fuel-efficient cars and Chrysler short of cash, a trouble-free...
SOUTH AFRICAN dramatists and writers alike must continually resist the considerable temptation to overuse apartheid themes in their work. In artistic terms, after all, it's a safe bet. The writer knows very well where he stands, what his task is--he can count on the audience to react predictably. Readers and viewers, too, are attracted to the theme: they can feel the profound emotions of injustice and compassion without too much effort. There is an almost conditioned response involved...