Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production chief, will meet soon in an attempt to salvage the film. The challenge is to reduce the length of the film by at least an hour while clarifying the story line and giving the audience some characters or situations to care about. U.A. is expected to invest another $10 million for the reclamation project. The South Bronx should be so lucky...
...Government, perhaps the most difficult Abscam case. After examining its evidence for nine months, the Justice Department last week obtained an indictment against Democratic Senator Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60, of New Jersey for allegedly offering to use his political influence to help a phony Arab sheik make profitable investments in the U.S. In return, the bribery indictment charges, Williams accepted shares in a defunct titanium mine in Virginia in which the sheik, who was actually an undercover FBI agent,' said he intended to invest $100 million...
...Reagan people knew they had a tremendous resource in their candidate's former rivals. "We have a blank check in terms of the time these men have available for us and the energy they are willing to invest. This kind of equanimity is highly unusual for us, and we intend to play it for all it is worth," Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), Reagan's campaign chairman, said last summer after the harmonious convention...
Ellsworth said that increased military spending would not necessitate a draft. Rather, the U.S. must invest more money in equipping the military and in training the personnel he said...
...relatively few hard-core criminals are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. The first was New York City's major offense bureau (MOB) in The Bronx district attorney's office, which began in 1973. MOB'S success inspired the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) to invest $30 million of federal money in 50 similar projects over a five-year period starting in 1975. Since then, 10,000 criminals who committed a total of 80,000 offenses have been sentenced under those projects to an average of 14 years in prison...