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...Guinea has slapped a tax on bauxite, which will add $40 million a year tot>, the costs of the consortiums of U.S., Canadian, West German, French and Italian aluminum companies that mine the West African country's immense deposits. The tax follows the precedent set by Jamaica last spring, when it increased taxes and royalties on its bauxite by 800%. Guinea plans to use the $40 million to help offset the higher oil-import costs that are squeezing the budgets of, all the less developed countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: Trying to Get Together | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...Balzacian novel from which John and Maureen Dean sprang is now reaching a richly ironic climax. Freed from prison after serving only four months of his one-to four-year Watergate sentence, John hurried home to Mo in Los Angeles to tot up the wages of sin. There was the $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster for hard-cover rights to John's account of life with Nixon, and the same publisher's undisclosed advance to Mo for her version of life with John. Then there is John's lecture tour, which starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1975 | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...grocery-store cash registers may soon belong to nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time for consumers and operating costs for store owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bringing Home The 33900-10020 | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

Could a Merged Harvard-Radcliffe Admissions Office Fairly Administer Equal Access M F Tot Yes 79.8 64.7 75.3 No 9.7 14.7 11.2 Unsure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Results: A Summary | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

...search for a liveable theology I've discovered that Breakfast of Champions, the very work liberating me to criticize bad books is, quite frankly, terrible. It's so bad, I can no longer, deny Nietzsche: Kurt Vonnegut, my Creator, has lost his creativity; Got ist, indeed, tot...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Soggy Wheaties That Went Down Wrong | 5/25/1973 | See Source »

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