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...Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing but the bankrupt rattling of an empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Nation Mourns Its Loss | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...difference between the loan guarantee and the tax credit is, however, more one of form than of content. If the government guaranteed a loan of $750 million to Chrysler, and the company went bankrupt, the government--through the tax-payers--would foot the bill. If the government advanced Chrysler the money through the tax credit instead, it would take the risk of never getting its money back. But the choice between the two is like a choice between apples and oranges--pay now, pay later, it's all a matter of taste...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Chrysler Squeezes the Feds | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign a 50-page deposition for U.S. prosecutors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...treasury is bankrupt and civil servants have not been paid for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Despot's Fall | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...that cost the taxpayers nothing, and by the time the Lockheed loans were paid off in 1977, the Government made a profit of $31 million in fees. Perm Central's plea for a handout in 1970 was ignored, and the Government stood by while the company went bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler's Cry | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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