Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some countries-even those with strict laws against bribery-questionable practices have become institutionalized. Saudi Arabian law has stern penalties for bribe takers, yet some American executives say that any company seeking a Saudi contract must count on adding 10% for graft to the stated price. One U.S. executive tells of paying $3 million in bribes to win a $7 million contract in Iran. In Indonesia, the President's wife, Ibu Tien Suharto, is widely known as "Ibu Ten Percent" for the rake-offs she has reportedly demanded from businesses operating there. The South Korean government lately has openly...
Prison Threats. Some U.S. officials fear that Park's harsh emphasis on "vigilance" may alienate many Koreans from his regime. Last month he issued a series of stern decrees that put the country under a "wartime emergency system" and increased the considerable powers of the police and Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Presidential emergency measure No. 9, for example, threatens stiff prison sentences for any act "denying, opposing, distorting or defaming the constitution." Such regulations have so intimidated the South Korean press that no newspaper dared carry the story that Park's party had demanded a gift...
...year in city income taxes. Additional increases would be sure to drive out still more businesses and residents. Nonetheless, Beame has in desperation proposed further corporate tax hikes on stock transfers, businesses and banks and a 10% increase in the realty tax. But the once stern accountant is doing little more than dreaming. Some $200 million in realty taxes has gone uncollected this year. Rather than pay more taxes on top of soaring fuel costs, landlords are abandoning residential buildings at a frightening rate...
Rabin's stern Diktat was not unprecedented; former Minister Eban was prohibited from publishing his diplomatic memoirs of the Six-Day War. Large portions of Golan's 300-page review of the Yom Kippur War and its diplomatic aftermath consisted of official documents tied together with transitional passages. As diplomatic correspondent of the fiercely independent Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz (circ. 55,000), Golan obviously had access to top-level sources, possibly within Israel's notoriously leaky Cabinet. Along with trading Kissinger stories last week, Israelis debated the identity of their own Deep Throat...
Edward F. Chamberlain, superintendent of Kirkland House, tells a story about a Kirkland celebration that took place some years back, when Arthur Smithies was House master. Smithies was pouring drinks for the members of the victorious House crew team, starting with the bow man and working towards the stern of the shell, and as he reached the stroke, someone brought word that he had just become a grandfather...