Word: corp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though rebates have not done all that much to stimulate sales for the auto manufacturers. From March 1 to May 18, buyers of G.E. hair dryers, toaster ovens and 37 other kinds of appliances will get rebates of from $2 to $5. Not to be outdone, the Proctor-Silex Corp. intends to give rebates of $3 to buyers of its self-cleaning steam irons. Beginning in the spring, buyers of Schick electric shavers, curling irons and hair dryers will also collect rebates of as yet undetermined size...
...rules of the game" remain unchanged. It may well be that the arms trade is, in fact, necessary to the existence of sovereign states. Who can say that they should not retain the option of military force to protect themselves? Welko Gasich, a vice president of Northrop Aircraft Corp., puts it bluntly: "Until we have a bona fide world police force, it's still Dodge City and everyone wants a rifle over his door." Considering the rate at which arms are being exported, the day of a rifle for every door may not be too far away...
...military elites often play major roles in the early stages of the new states, their demands for more equipment can seldom be ignored. "No military branch wants to be saddled with old or obsolete equipment that reflects adversely on the dignity of the service," dryly notes a 1973 Rand Corp. study on the transfer of arms to Latin America...
...Corp. (Chicago), M-113 armored personnel carriers. Defense export sales: $271.8 million...
...Corporation into producing enough low and moderate income housing to replace the hundreds of units that Harvard has taken off the market. And yet only 94 units of elderly housing on Mt. Auburn St, and the 116 units on Cambridge and Prospect Sts, were ever built, and the Cambridge Corp. lies fallow--killed during the worst housing shortage in the history of Cambridge, claiming that its duty was done...