Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands tied behind their backs, drowned because they refused to answer questions. I have also seen the bodies of women and children disemboweled by the Viet Cong." He recalls a young Marine who flung a Vietnamese woman to the ground and robbed her at knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down his throat until he nearly drowned. When he still would...
Bureaucrats and Butterbergs. The result is that the Common Market today is still little more than an imperfect customs union-which is precisely what France's President Georges Pompidou sneeringly called it while serving as De Gaulle's Premier. Joint policies on money and transportation have never been worked out. Uniform tax reforms were supposed to be completed by the beginning of 1970, but Italy and Belgium have airily announced that they will be unable to meet the date...
...been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that my books had been published abroad. His wretched successors only dare to embezzle a part of my money. It only reaffirms my opinion of the degradation and decrepitude of this regime...
...summer, in Cambridge, I thought I'd make jewelry for money. I discovered that it took, say, four hours to make a pair of earrings. But a retailer wouldn't be able to ask more than six dollars for the pair. Which meant I would get three. I gave up the business. The alternative was to make the same thing over and over. which would have been efficient but boring. Of course, Alexander Calder and Salvador Dali sell their jewelry as Art, and get considerably more than six dollars per piece...
...group had hoped to force the firm into a public debate where they might "delegitimize them and show students who might work for them where their money comes from." Although another law firm allegedly involved in South Africa had publicly debated students the night before, Milbank refused to do so. The interviewers declined to comment on the refusal...