Word: stiffs
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...after World War II was the driving force behind the creation of the United Nations and the World Bank. In the campaign to fashion a new environmental order, however, other nations are taking the lead. Canada and Germany, among others, are championing the biodiversity treaty, Scandinavian countries have imposed stiff taxes to discourage energy consumption, and Japan has sharply boosted its environmental aid to developing nations. At Reilly's press conference, one reporter impudently mentioned that Japan's pledge of $200 million to help clean up a single bay in Brazil was more than the $150 million in new money...
...information, such as earnings results and product announcements, before it is publicly released. To guard against abuses, top officers are subject to special regulation. They must, for example, report each of their trades to the SEC by the 10th of the following month. And they are subject to stiff fines and penalties for late filings...
...east by 1994 and insisted that "nobody will be worse off after unification." But two years later the landscape is not blooming, and recovery of the east is likely to take 10 years at least. Kohl said there would be no new taxes, but the government enacted stiff "unity surcharges" on income taxes last year. He promised to control inflation, the economic hobgoblin of postwar Germany, yet it is running higher than 4%. Last week Kohl seemed to misread the public mood, blithely dismissing the labor unrest as "no real crisis...
...growing body of critics charge that Chapter 11 has become a tool that wily managers can now use to stiff creditors and preserve their own jobs. Moreover, they argue, companies in Chapter 11 can take advantage of the fact that they pay no interest on part of their debt by slashing prices and wreaking havoc on their competitors. Most companies that take refuge in Chapter 11 ultimately fail anyway, critics say, leaving creditors with even fewer assets than if the firms had been liquidated in the first place. Says Sam Zell, a Chicago financier: "It isn't good...
While Americans may sneer at the far more expensive addiction of Europe's farmers to subsidies and trade barriers, some of Uncle Sam's industries cannot live without a stiff fix from Washington. U.S. shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes...