Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developing countries obtain the postponements they had been seeking on the debts they owe to richer nations. The industrialized countries did agree, however, to join them in drawing up common guidelines to be applied to countries on the verge of bankruptcy. The rich countries also agreed to ease the transfer of technology to poorer nations as well as the trade barriers that hamper Third World exports...
...measure of that interest that Hedrick Smith's The Russians has climbed almost instantly onto the bestseller list. By rights, it should be sharing the distinction with Robert Kaiser's Russia. Smith's work is more rigorously organized, richer in anecdote; Kaiser's a bit broader, more discursive, and given to larger generalization. Both books, superb exercises in political-travel journalism, give Russia what it has always lacked for Americans: a complicated human reality...
...continuing labor impasse was over baseball's reserve clause-the long-rankling method by which owners indenture players to one team in order to recover the cost of developing major leaguers and to protect poorer clubs from being outbid and ultimately destroyed by richer clubs. Last December an arbitrator struck down the system and ruled, on cases brought by Pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally (now retired), that the standard baseball contract's one-year renewal clause was just that and nothing more. A player, he held, would become a free agent after playing for his team without...
...money because they are unemployed, unequipped with the technical skills Algeria needs so badly. Ten years ago unemployment was worse but easier to tolerate, because everybody else was either unemployed or poor. Now it is harder to bear because there are so many flashy new state institutions. Algeria is richer than the Algerians, and many Algerians know...
...About 3,200 contracts will be negotiated in the construction trades this year, most of them in the spring and summer. Construction contracts are drawn up locally and reflect local economic conditions. On the West Coast, for example, plumbers and electricians are in high demand and have been winning richer settlements than their brethren in the East. Such differentials could lead to tensions between labor and management in some areas. But the geographical diversity of construction negotiations makes their outcome hard to prophesy...