Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, most defense suppliers will be able to absorb at least the immediate impact of the cutback. As is the case with nearly all U.S. military exports, the Defense Department protects manufacturers by routinely requiring buyers to deposit enough money in a Government-administered trust account to cover a company's start-up costs under a contract. The money, which in the case of Iran totals $500 million, is held in escrow until work is completed and all the equipment has been delivered and paid for. At the same time, the contracts themselves also normally require buyers to make...
Buckley helped create Starr in 1966 and was its chairman from 1969 until 977. In 1971 he set up a separate venture called Sitco in partnership with three other Starr officer-directors. Sitco bought 7 Texas movie theaters, but the investment went sour; revenue from the theaters could not cover the interest on the partners' loans, and they faced a threat of personal bankruptcy. In 1974, however, Buckley allegedly proposed that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this...
...imports. But a total halt may take five years or longer. Sooner or later, though, Americans will have to learn that Euroblood, like Middle Eastern oil, is not an inexhaustible resource. Says Dr. Irene Roeckel, director of a blood bank in Lexington, Ky.: "The impact of Euroblood is to cover the national shame of not enough Americans lying down and donating blood...
...includes many poignant vignettes of Germans running, swimming, crawling to freedom or to death. Construction Worker Emil Goltz darts under a railway car, hanging between the wheels for miles. Two lovers appear to be ardently embracing by the Wall, but under cover of the clinch, the man is hastily snipping the wire. When the gap is large enough, the lovers rush through followed by a group of friends who were hiding near by. Others, in scenes reminiscent of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, perish within a few feet of the West, or are arrested and imprisoned because...
...idea has great possibilities, but Truscott writes with the subtlety of a rifle butt. His villain, Charles Sherrill Hedges, commandant of cadets, is a pathologically ambitious martinet who tries to cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying...