Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Councillor Alice T. Wolf says she thinks the placement of the menorah is "okay, as long as it is made clear that it was by a private group...
...telephone console resting on a gargantuan round table boasts 90 buttons, and the man seated before it seems bent on using all of them at once. His plump fingers, the nails freshly manicured with clear polish, poke impatiently at the instrument. Visitors flow into the office in a steady stream, yet all the while the man continues a separate dialogue with the console. "He wouldn't be a bureaucrat unless he was in a meeting," he booms into the speaker in a British-accented baritone that is powerful yet velvety. "I want the man, not the message." Poke. A button...
...Maxwell still shrugs off the questions and says with exaggerated humility, "My dream in life was to own a cow." Now he owns a whole herd of cash-cows to sustain an increasing debt necessary to finance his global expansion. With his military training, he does best with a clear enemy, and currently that is Rupert Murdoch. In their Hertz-Avis relationship, Murdoch is several long steps ahead. His News Group Newspapers, Ltd., is worth $13 billion, with a $6 billion debt, whereas Maxwell Communication Corp. runs at around $5 billion, with roughly $2 billion in debt. Murdoch's tabloid...
...downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government wants them to tone down their militancy...
Plausible, perhaps, but Herrington argued otherwise. "I have run this on a nonpolitical basis," he maintains. "We were picking the best from the best, and it is clear that the Texas site is superior." In particular, the site 28 miles south of Dallas and completely surrounding the town of Waxahachie (pop. 18,300) was rated "outstanding" on four criteria and "good" on two others, clearly outperforming the competition. The best alternative was Tennessee, with three "outstandings," two "goods" and one "satisfactory." Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and North Carolina rounded out the pack. Moreover, Texas volunteered to throw $1 billion...