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...Belgium and 70% in Italy; in the U.S., they have increased by only 12%. With the U.S. now growing faster than Europe, multinational managers have to shave expenses or else risk having their European operations drag down the performance of the parent companies as well. As a result, businessmen are cutting their European costs in several ways...
...much larger cut would result if, as some commission members urge, the Government raised from 16 to 18 the age at which an unsuccessful job hunter could be called unemployed. Advocates of this argue that so many 16-and 17-year-olds are students that no one can measure how many really want jobs and cannot find them. Others counter that the revision would hide an all too real problem of youth unemployment. The report leaves the question unsettled...
...banks, which can cover their costs by making high-interest installment loans, savings and loan banks are restricted to mortgages. In New York, Pennsylvania and other states that have usury laws, mortgage-rate ceilings are now lower than the rates banks have to pay on the MMCs. As a result, some S and Ls have begun using the cash they have received for MMCs to buy certificates of deposit paying 11% or more...
...result was a collection that was a pure demonstration of its owner's fantasies. The clothes peddler's son from Grand Street was, at heart, a displaced Edwardian grandee, longing for the class (high, slightly raffish, demanding and Anglophile) into which he had not been born. His conversation had the pungency of a vanished era; it demanded, and got, a great deal of time and attention. It coiled and ran and turned back on itself, wandering off into apparent non sequiturs to test the listener, piling metaphor on private joke, allusion on trope, and then puncturing the entire...
Wells said that this kind of vandalism would probably not result in dismissal, but the student might lost credit for the Ames Competition...