Word: tredicesimas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister sought to scare his countrymen into mending their free-spending ways, his message was ill timed. It came just before the manifestation of a peculiarly Italian custom, tredicesima. That is a 13th-month salary, paid by law and tradition to workers at all levels every Christmastime. Some 21 million Italians received a total of $9.2 billion tredicesimas last week, and few would be so un-Italian as to save a lira of it. Instead, the windfall will go for pasta, parmigiano and panettone, and for spumante and sambuca to grace their holiday tables. Any lire left over will...
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