Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hayes told the reporter that frequently, after peanuts had left the warehouse, Billy Carter would put off signing the checks to the bank. Then, to cover up the lateness of payments, Hayes said, he and Carter would change the dates on warehouse release documents and date checks for weekends and holidays...
...programs. The total: $2.6 billion, which was equal to about 16% of the companies' net profits, 10% of their capital expenditures and 40% of their R. & D. budgets for the year. IBM Chairman Frank Gary, who supervised the study, reckoned that the $2.6 billion figure, extrapolated to cover the whole U.S. economy, would yield an overall cost of regulation that is "not inconsistent" with Weidenbaum's $79 billion estimate...
Charges of kickbacks and cover-ups in Japanese TV imports...
...value has been tumbling. Nobody knows how Turkey Zaire, Peru and many other impecunious countries will ever pay back their loans to Citibank, Chase or the rest of the big U.S. lenders. The debtor countries, pleading poverty, could indefinitely defer repayment. Then the Federal Reserve Board would have to cover those bad debts, meaning that the U.S. taxpayer would finance the bailout. Says Zombanakis: "We have created a system in which almost the entire debt of the world rests on the Federal Reserve...
...businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...