Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America was launched in 1939, it was the flagship of the United States Line, the country's largest, fastest, most luxurious liner. But 25 years later, when planes took over the transatlantic travel market, the ship began losing money and was sold to a Greek shipping firm that used it chiefly for cruises around the world. This month, having been resold and then refurbished at a cost of more than $2 million, the America set sail from New York City on a new career and immediately ran into a sea of troubles...
...another Federal Court ruling, Frank W. Snepp III--a former CIA agent and author of Decent Interval, a rather embarrassing book about the old firm that cited several "secret" documents without agency permission--was told by the court to surrender the money he made on the book, because he didn't play by the rules. The issue has been fought out before: every CIA employee, when he comes to the agency, must sign a waiver that gives away his rights to use CIA materials outside the job without permission. Still, "secret" documents have been used by some...
...Long Island-based independent consulting engineering firm will inspect the labs, Leahy said. This firm will also make sure that the work and design originally agreed upon by the Harvard Resource and Planning Office has been met by the contractors...
American companies now spend $7.1 billion on security annually at home and abroad (up from $3.2 billion five years ago). Former FBI Agent Charles Bates, now an executive at a San Francisco security agency, reckons that 80% of large U.S. firms have either started executive protection programs or are considering doing so. Scores of new firms specializing in executive safety have opened shop, and the big, old protection agencies are growing. Burns, the nation's second largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts...
...point. Gustavo Curtis, the former chief of Beatrice Foods in Colombia who was held by terrorists for eight months, is suing his company for $185 million. His complaint: though the firm had had prior indications that he would be a terrorist target, Beatrice Foods treated his disappearance as a hoax at first, then dawdled over negotiating his release, condemning him and his family to a long, anxiety-laden ordeal...