Word: returns
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...Treasuries offer a timely combination of high yields and safety. Moreover, interest on the securities is exempt from state and local taxes. While rates have dipped below the peaks they reached in March, new three-month T-bill issues offered an attractive return of more than 8.5% last week. Investors daunted by the $10,000 minimum-purchase requirement for T-bills can buy longer-term Treasury notes and bonds in face amounts of $1,000 and $5,000. Such securities mature in two to 30 years and can pay more than 9% interest, which often exceeds the rates paid...
Panama, however, is a victim of the old-style, territorialist tendencies of U.S. imperialism. After Jimmy Carter signed an agreement scheduling the return of the Panama Canal to Panama in the year 2000, North Americans suddenly discovered a real stake in good relations with this tiny country...
...involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
...program. Instead, he maneuvers in and out of every situation like a clever fox." Nonetheless, with empty store shelves and seething ethnic tensions, many edgy Soviets are counting the days in hopes that the first session of the new congress will mark the point of no return on the path of reform...
...experience. L'Ecole diner Gilberte Roger, 40, a French citizen who works at the United Nations, on a recent visit found that her carrots were too hard and that they had an unreal "American look." But she enjoyed the rest of her meal so much that she vowed to return because the restaurant "deserved to be called French." The splendid menu at the Culinary School of Kendall College in Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three hours round trip with his wife...