Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bribed customs officials to let them return with luggage loaded with wristwatches, diamonds or electronic equipment. An applicant for a government contract in New Delhi may find his documents interminably lost between offices unless he helps them along with "speed money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming...
...monetary solutions. No doubt Congress will reduce the 10 per cent figure to six or eight per cent before voting on it; even at 10 per cent it is no panacea: the tax hike will not eliminate the deficit, it will just reduce it. Nor will it stop inflation; the surtax will be a brake to help slow the economy down. Fiscal policy, such as the tax hike, is effective only when employed at the first signs of an economic trend, not six months later. The signs are clear...
...high boots) to mid-shin to ankle length (in some cases worn with frilly pantaloons). For color, black was back-hardly news to raise a cheer round the world. The results, wrote Gloria Emerson in the New York Times, "seem to be dresses for women who can't stop rereading old love letters." In the end, what Paris did have to say was said best in two outstanding collections: those of Yves St. Laurent and Andre Courreges...
...until his patent is granted. "It works by diverting the impact energy from the impact point." Threads of the new material, says Davis Aircraft President Robert L. Davis, "pull together and tighten up when struck by a bullet, force it to wobble, then actually pucker around the projectile and stop...
Learning about Steel. It took some asking-three months of what Minister Marsh described as "chasing and persuading"-to land him in the job. The quest began after it became obvious that nothing could stop Labor's comfortable parliamentary majority from acting at last on a basic commitment to nationalize steel. Convinced that the bill is broad enough to permit free action, Lord Melchett finally agreed to serve. A week later he quit his bank, Hill Samuel & Co., Ltd. and was hard at work learning about steel. Said he: "The job now is for capable people-Tory or anything...