Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, the government had claimed that Park had been killed "accidentally" when Kim Jae Kyu fired several shots at Cha in a fit of anger. Two days later, the government tacitly admitted the absurdity of that version by providing a second "official" account of the killing. According to this story, Kim and several of his KCIA agents had conspired to kill both Cha and the President because Kim had fallen out of favor with Park and feared that he was going to lose his job. That account seemed more plausible, as far as it went...
Bumper stickers demanded the impeachment of Earl Warren. Alabama Governor George Wallace called the court a ''sorry, lousy, no-account outfit...
Most funds demand a minimum initial investment, which generally ranges from $500 to $5,000 but can be partly withdrawn once the account is open. The funds make money for themselves by paying out to shareholders slightly less interest (usually one-half of 1%) than the investments earn. One of the most appealing features is liquidity. Nearly all offer instant withdrawal without penalty, and most allow shareholders to write checks to third parties against their investment balance, thus ensuring that savings earn interest right up to the day the check is presented for payment. Still others offer credit lines...
...your money into a savings bank account at 5½% while inflation is more than 13%, you get poor very quickly. With money market funds, at least you get poor slowly...
...curious aspect of this great discovery was that like so many other physical theories of its time, it was to lie fallow for many years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another prospect. "I was very proud of the paper," its author fondly recalls, "but I had no idea of its import. If we'd been smarter, we'd have realized as early as 1964 how important it was. But we were stupid. I had to import two foreigners to figure...