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...money is too small, says Tim Ransdell. He authored one of the few comprehensive assessments of homeland-security money on behalf of the Public Policy Institute of California. "Wyoming and South Dakota are important states, but it's a bit counterintuitive to say an individual in those states is manyfold more important than someone living in a state that has a border with a foreign nation, some of the nation's icons and almost half of the nation's containerized cargo." Says Al O'Leary of the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: "It goes against every fundamental precept...
...camoflauge the fact that many grandparents would not have been welcome here. Such personal ties to Harvard underlay most individual donations. Eliot, explaining the rationale behind giving, said "the men in this generation who have had the benefit of these funds, and who succeeded in after life, will pay manyfold to their successors...
...theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour to generate human interest in the film amid a television and print advertising blitz. The studio's $5 million p.r. investment has been returned manyfold. Says Paramount's Tanen: "We worked this poor man unmercifully. But Americans took a liking...
...billion or so that criminals "greenwashed" through institutions in the U.S. last year represents a manyfold increase since 1974. By following these illicit funds to their sources, federal agents hope to nab the high rollers of drug dealing, loan sharking, illegal gambling and prostitution. And since banks are often a key link in the laundering process, the Feds want to get tough about the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, which instructs banks and other financial concerns to file a report (Internal Revenue Service Form 4789) whenever they accept more than $10,000. By running the forms through computers, investigators...
...their own psychology. The Soviet regime is justifiably insecure about its legitimacy, in the eyes of both its own people and the rest of the world. For the men in the Kremlin, the very assertion of equal status with the U.S. was its own reward. Its value increased manyfold when the U.S. was willing to enshrine the magic word equality in the communiques issued at summits and the prologues to SALT treaties and accords that Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter signed with Leonid Brezhnev between...