Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than under the easygoing Bell. Said Civiletti last week: "There is nothing more harmful to justice or the perception of justice than delay, red tape, unpreparedness." Civiletti is seeking ways to form task forces from the various divisions of the department (such as criminal, tax and antitrust) to pursue complex cases of corporate wrongdoing. He is also known to be eager to crack down on sophisticated white-collar criminals. Under Civiletti, the department is expected to pay more attention to violations of health and safety laws, particularly those involving the environment...
Most managers don't have to tell you that all the time. It's a classic Napoleonic complex...
...Manhattan co-op has jumped to more than $30,000 a room, from $18,000 a year ago and $11,000 in 1974. In Chicago, the typical condominium price per room is $46,000, vs. $30,000 last year. Demand is strong: all 280 condos in one town-house complex in Los Angeles' Century Hills sold out even before construction began. Prices: $230,000 to $400,000 per apartment...
...Saudi Arabia, where ISC won a $106 million contract to design and build a desalination plant, the SEC charges that the company paid Adnam Samman, then vice governor of the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corp., $3.5 million. To pick up a $50 million contract for a sugar processing complex in the Ivory Coast, ISC paid Gilchrist Olympic, son of a for mer President of Togo, more than $1 million and gave him a new Lincoln Continental, the SEC says...
...Lloyd's of London, risk has always meant opportunity. The celebrated market of hundreds of risk-sharing insurance syndicates prides itself on being the first to offer coverage on the new, the colossal, the bizarre. But as technology grows ever more complex, the risks keep rising, and each year the amounts that Lloyd's underwriters pay out on litigious losses, from oil tanker disasters to Mafia-set arson jobs, keep swelling. Yet this year is one that even Lloyd's risk-hardened underwriters are not likely to forget...