Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hakim looked out for the military men who were his partners. Last week committee investigators discovered that Secord may have withdrawn as much as $300,000 from an account set up by Hakim to pay for amenities such as a Piper Seneca airplane, a Porsche sports car and a visit to a health spa. In his testimony to the committee last month, Secord indignantly insisted he did not benefit from the weapons deals; he may now be summoned back to Capitol Hill to explain the discrepancies...
...observation by Paul Sykes that "the bird can also leave just before you get there." As all birders come to know, there is a corollary to this that says, "After sighting a particular species you have chased for years, three of them will perch on the hood of your car as you start for home...
...most accounts, Volcker ranks as the best-known chairman in the Fed's history. His bald pate and halo of cigar smoke became a familiar sight on magazine covers and TV screens, while his name frequently cropped up in everyday household discussions of mortgage rates and car loans. Overseas, his willingness to involve his agency in other countries' economic concerns earned the U.S. large amounts of economic goodwill. Even bankers like former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, who tangled with Volcker on many issues, admired the Fed chief's willingness to do the dirty work of wringing inflation...
...sale of the O'Brien Properties toHarvard has generated some apprehension among someof the tenants there. "Everybody's nervous aboutwhat a new landlord can do," said Jonathan B. Hill'73, owner of Brodie's car rental, who said hemust renegotiate his lease in three months...
Others are preoccupied by the fact that Israel is still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past...