Word: duns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi in the 18th century. With his pukka sahib manner, Yahya seems strictly Sandhurst, though he learned his trade not in England but at the British-run Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. During World War II, he fought in the British Indian army in North Africa and Italy. After partition, like most of the subcontinent's best soldiers, he opted to become a Pakistani (India, the saying goes, got all the bureaucrats). He was an Ayub protege from the start...
...added" (T.V.A.), this was no great problem; when a Luxembourgeois who believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois for 17% of the Strasbourg crematorium's fee-the "value added" to the deceased. On their way home with the ashes, the mourners get hit again, this time by Luxembourg officials who demand payment of another 8% tax for "work entrusted to a foreign company, with reimportation...
Several said that their refusal was based on doubts about Scanlan's financial situation, but Dun & Bradstreet says that the magazine's latest net worth is $497,976. Scanlan's Editor Sidney E. Zion says that the refusal is an inexcusable act of censorship by the printers. The magazine finally found a printer in Canada, which was understandably reluctant to encourage bombers. Montreal police seized some 100,000 copies on the technicality that the necessary permit had not been obtained. Last week, while Scanlan's lawyer Israel Schawartzberg was rounding up the necessary signatures, he died...
...They've got plenty of money, too," said Nat. "Just tell me the one you want and I'll have her checked with Dun and Bradstreet...
...season afternoon. Adjudant-Chef Robert Garros, 34, stopped his Jeep and looked back. A long funnel of dust stretched out behind his platoon's four battered, dun-colored weapons carriers. His 35 legionnaires were tired and filthy, their faces caked with white dust. After a moment, Garros, a muscular barrel of a man with 14 long years of tough service in the legion, raised his arm to signal the advance. With the Jeep in the lead, the four weapons carriers rumbled ahead side by side and raced over deep elephant tracks into a village of conical straw huts...