Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Miller handily passed the test. After five weeks of slipshod investigation, the staff of the Senate Banking Committee had compiled 1,400 pages of testimony and evidence about alleged bribery by Textron to push sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran; leaks had inspired innuendo-filled stories in the press. But in nearly four hours of face-to-face grilling, Miller convinced the Senators that there was no proof that Textron had in effect resorted to bribery, and still less that he as boss had condoned it. In a stinging rebuke to its own chairman, Wisconsin Democrat William...
...question was a payment of $2.95 million that Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, had made, with Miller's approval, to an Iranian company named Air Taxi. The money was paid as a form of commission at about the time of a sale in 1973 of $500 million worth of helicopters to the Iranian government. The payment itself was legal and no secret; Textron openly recorded it on the books. But Proxmire and the committee staff claimed to have evidence that Air Taxi was secretly partially owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, former head of the Iranian air force...
...mouth and begins the lecture. "One must use the mind to get more than material objects like sex and shelter. One must use the mind to develop a greater relationship with God," he says. Devotees and Krishna followers filter into the temple. One devotee rings a large bell suspended before the orange curtain. Most of the entering congregation are Indians, but the group includes people of all races and nationalities. They all press their foreheads to the floor and sit cross-legged...
Captain Randy Roth and the "B" line of Burke, Bell and Bolduc soared down the ice and a dead chicken dropped from the stands. Watson went wild and the Terriers went home whipped...
...However, Bell said the committee is "starting from scratch" in planning work with the Cambridge Community Center...