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In one instance, a lot of money was used to bribe some German technicians in order to acquire a (West German) Leopard tank. The question was how to get the engine to the U.S.S.R. The solution was for the Soviet consul in the area to buy a yacht and have...
There is never a good time for a jet fighter to crash, but the loss of an F-20 Tigershark jet in Labrador last week seemed particularly inopportune. The plane, en route to the Paris Air Show, had stopped over at Goose Bay airport; coming in from a practice flight...
When CBS last November paid $362.5 million to buy twelve Ziff-Davis magazines (combined monthly circulation: more than 4.5 million), quite a few people thought that the broadcaster had paid too handsome a sum. But CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman remained unfazed, proclaiming the agreement "a rare opportunity to acquire a...
The proliferation of the paper, though, is causing both moneymen and legislators to wonder whether the junk pile could collapse. Last week New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici introduced a Senate bill that would halt the feverish growth by putting a moratorium until the end of the year on most takeovers...
But those opposing greyhound use argue that it is inhumane, that researchers sometimes acquire research animals by questionable means, and that surplus greyhounds should be used as house pets, said Elizabeth B. Stengel, a legislative analyst at Boston University Medical School.