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...left." At its simplest, it is nothing more than passing on to the local butcher tickets for a popular soccer game or concert in return for a good cut of meat; tipping off the plumber about a shipment of shoes that is due to arrive in a shop as payment for fixing a leaking pipe; or holding down a second job as a furniture mover or apartment painter. Na levo can and does, however, also extend to smuggling consumer goods in from the West, running a hidden factory, stealing state-owned materials and skipping out from work on a state...
...boutique in Atlanta, the response to a 10% cash discount has been "terrific," according to a saleswoman. Last week the House of Representatives gave further encouragement to the trend by voting to lift cash-discount restrictions. At present some states limit to 5% the discounts offered as incentives for payment in cash...
Fortunately, the assembly did not forward a down payment to Amtrak for the $13,500 train, and when only 70 students lined up to ride the railroad, spokesmen quietly backed out of the project...
Less ambiguous than the Muslim ministers, the International Court of Justice at The Hague declared Iran guilty of "continuing breaches" of international law and ordered the immediate release of the hostages and payment of damages to the U.S. Tehran, which does not recognize the court's jurisdiction, is expected to defy the order. But some hopes for a break in the crisis were raised at week's end when three prominent Socialist party leaders-Sweden's Olof Palme, Spain's Felipe Gonzalez and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky-met in Vienna and discussed the possibility of flying...
...respectively, bringing the overall drop in OPEC'S output to 2 million bbl. per day below the autumn 1979 level of 31 million bbl. daily. Some price hikes continue nonetheless. Algeria has put a $3-per-bbl. surcharge on its crude, euphemistically calling it a "down payment against future explorations...