Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke - Westigard '80, a Native American activist, told the crowd that "what's happening here at Draper Labs has been going on for a long time--we'd been here 40,000 years, and we didn't take uranium out of the land. It took the military industrial complex to do that...
Lance's activities, and those of Co-Defendants Richard Carr, Thomas Mitchell and H. Jackson Mullins, were not all that complex. While his friend and client Billy Carter was said to be "kiting" checks, Lance was apparently kiting banks. He played the game with a series of unsecured loans, the Government charges, borrowing from one bank to pay off another; his relatives and associates took out more than 383 loans from more than 40 banks. Long-term overdrafts were also used as interest-free loans, the indictment states. In 1975, 21 associates and friends, who held less than...
Among these expenditures were guard posts ($56,903), bulletproof-glass windscreens ($12,894), and $1.7 million for the office complex...
...cheered him because he was the Ayatullah Khomeini's man, but now they view him with suspicion as they try to balance then" demands with the need to keep the industry going fairly smoothly and economically. Nazih, a lawyer, is in over his head trying to direct a complex oil industry, and his superiors know it. He may well be ousted soon...
...said the protest is directed at the military-industrial complex to change the orientation of the economy from military to civilian needs...