Word: client
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Israel is already America's biggest foreign-aid client. This year it received $1.2 billion in economic assistance and $1.4 billion in direct military aid. But faced with a 445% annual inflation rate and dwindling foreign-exchange reserves, the new government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres estimates it will need $4.1 billion in U.S. military and economic aid for fiscal 1986 (a $1.5 billion increase), and some $8 billion more in the following two years. Peres, in turn, promises harsh economic austerity measures that will nearly double Israel's unemployment rate, to 8%, and force real wages down to their...
...place. They may not have much more in common than boredom, but it beats sleeping alone, or with Marty. The cuckold is aware of this, so he hires a mean, giggly detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill them. The detective has a better idea. He'll kill his client instead, pocket the ten grand and frame the intended victims as the murderers. Just two problems: Ray, not the police, finds Marty's corpse; and Marty is not quite dead. So Ray, thinking that Abby did the deed to be with him, must finish the detective's messy...
...real estate became of no concern. Tax benefits were being sold." Decisions in business, Egger points out, "should be based on economics, not on taxes." The overhaul proposed by Treasury, says Tax Scholar Charles McLure, who was a principal draftsman, is "a free-market manifesto." Ronald Reagan is a client...
...Lowe, declared that the SEC violated Lowe's constitutional right to freedom of speech when it sought to bar him from publishing market tips. The agency revoked Lowe's investment adviser license in 1981 after the Jersey City man was convicted of grand larceny, tampering with evidence, defrauding a client and failing to register as an investment adviser in New York State. Said Schoeman prior to appearing before the Supreme Court: "We're not challenging the revocation of the license. We're saying you don't need a license to publish a newsletter. Freedom of the press, if it means...
...that he assembled earlier this year when he ran for the management board of his ritzy Manhattan apartment building, Koecher described himself as "a consultant on national security matters." That was true too, after a fashion. According to federal authorities, Koecher did have one client, to whom he told everything he knew about U.S. national security: the Czechoslovak intelligence service. Koecher, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged last week with spying for his native Czechoslovakia...