Word: sharing
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Amexco has also bought a 15% share of Club Mediterrannée, a chain of sea and ski resorts for the budget-minded, and it hopes to acquire a larger interest...
...allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits would be restricted to eleven...
...major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would be mate No. 2 for Perrier. It has already wooed and almost won Sapiem, France's second largest dairy firm...
...state-run Crédit Agricole bank, acting as an interested go-between, buys up most of the Genvrain shares that had been offered to Perrier, and resells them in equal amounts to Perrier and Bel. Then, in a burst of amiability, the principals agree to share Genvrain. The agreement serves the government's purpose of keeping France's dairy industry free from foreign control, but represents rather less than a major gain for efficiency. The terms of the formula, originally proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, were divulged last week: Perrier and Bel will each...
...Antiquated abortion laws and practices in the United States must share the responsibility for the high abortion death rate with the illegal abortionists. Abortion is the third biggest racket in the United States (behind gambling and prostitution). Although some competent doctors perform illegal abortions because they are convinced the laws are unfair, the majority of abortionists are incompetent money scroungers. However, under the present legal system, a woman is forced to turn to these people if she is to retain the right to make decisions about her life. The power in the present system lies in the hands...