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...specific allegations are highly technical. They revolve around actions of the Catawba Corp., a privately owned company created by William Sr. partly as a way to funnel his millions (one published estimate, disputed by the Buckleys as too high, is $170 million) to his ten children. Each inherited 9.8% of the firm's stock. The only non-family shareholder is Reasoner, who holds 2%. Catawba owned no mineral or petroleum lands of its own. But it controlled six other publicly owned corporations...
...Foreign travelers report seeing old women in the fields flailing the grain with wooden paddles, then winnowing by throwing kernels and hulls in the air, letting the wind separate the two. Another not infrequent sight: grain combines mowing while collection trucks follow much too far behind. "The combines literally funnel the grain right back into the fields, missing the trucks completely," says one bemused Western specialist. Western estimates put waste at between 20% and 40% of the total harvest...
...refer to the specific Administration policies that blacks fear most. These include cutbacks in funds for food stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, school lunches, Medicaid, subsidized housing, job training, small-business loans and general aid to education. He did not mention his plans to funnel federal help through block grants to states, which many blacks consider a retreat to the days when dominant white majorities in state offices denied them equal access to governmental funds. He said nothing encouraging about what blacks see as a federal retreat from affirmative-action programs. Although Reagan described voting as "the most...
...developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public funds for further research on developing the synthetic fuel industry. Though Congress voted down...
...ground-based solar collectors shut down, these microwaves would come flooding down from space. In the scheme studied by the Energy Department, these beams would be focused on six-mile by nine-mile oval-shaped receiving antennas called rectennas. The rectennas would turn the microwaves back into electricity and funnel it into utility power grids. By Glaser's calculation, one satellite could supply as much electricity as five nuclear plants. The Energy Department envisioned 60 such arrays, built over 30 years, to supply 300 million kW., which is about half the U.S.'s current electrical generating capacity...