Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the clock. Meanwhile, local officials are trying a last-ditch legal maneuver to send him packing. Says County Supervisor Tom Powers: "My wife and I were out walking the other night, and she points to some guy and says, 'Doesn't that person look like Singleton?' " A retired merchant seaman, Singleton could not be blamed if he felt he was on a never ending voyage...
WASHINGTON--The Navy, in an unexpected first step toward taking on expanded duties in the Persian Gulf, escorted a Kuwaiti merchant ship carrying U.S. arms to Bahrain on Monday, the Pentagon disclosed last night...
Secord returned to Washington in 1978 to head the Air Force's military- assistance and sales program. There he formed a relationship with Edwin Wilson, the CIA operative turned arms merchant now serving 52 years in federal prison for illegally selling arms to Libya. Secord's career stalled in 1982, when he came under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring with Wilson and others to defraud the U.S. Government of $8 million on an Egyptian arms-shipping contract. He was suspended from duty for a short time, although he was never indicted; he was reinstated with...
...like an ape. Art is the saving grace by which any nasty Croesus with more money than he knows what to do with can look virtuous. It confers an oily sheen of spiritual transcendence and cultural responsibility upon individual and corporation alike. That is why even a soft-porn merchant like Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, is now a "major" collector...
After serving in the merchant marine in WorldWar II, Kohlberg helped Jewish refugees flee fromFrance and enter Palestine illegally, Gutmannsaid...