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...banking. Considering the complexity and high risks involved in modern international finance, they acted with commendable prudence. As the first petrodollars began to flood in, almost no Arab monetary agencies knew how to protect their new-found riches from the ravages of inflation. Many of the top moneymen had scant training for their high posts. Hence the Arab officials wisely turned to sure things: U.S. Treasury bills and mammoth deposits in the big international American and British banks...
...hour week at the Minsk plant is 205 rubles ($308) a month. But a full-course lunch in the factory cafeteria costs only 50 or 60 kopecks (750 to 900), and rent for a factory-subsidized two-room apartment, including heat, electricity, water and telephone, is a scant 12 to 15 rubles ($18 to $23) a month. Medical care is free, and outstanding workers are eligible for factory-sponsored trips to Black Sea and Baltic resorts...
Giscard got scant credit at home for what the Paris daily Le Monde dubbed an act of "Lone Ranger" diplomacy. In a scathing editorial, the paper observed: "Brezhnev got what he wanted. The Soviet press will present [Giscard's] presence in Warsaw as meaning the end of the quarantine in which the Kremlin's leadership has been locked for five months since the rape of Afghanistan." The left-wing Le Matin de Paris suggested that Giscard could be "the first Western leader to consent to a slow process of Finlandization in Western Europe." In a Page One banner...
Following the flight of the first group of families, the state began constructing a drainage system aimed at preventing the chemicals stored in the corroding barrels from seeping into any more homes. But it got scant help from Hooker, which is now the target of a barrage of lawsuits totaling several billion dollars by the U.S. Justice Department, New York State and various residents. The company has consistently reminded critics that at the time it was done the dumping was legal and that it had waived all responsibility for the property when it was turned over to the school board...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...