Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cable to the Pentagon last week, Lockheed President Lawrence Kitchen insisted that his company had made only a 13.4% profit on the units. Nevertheless, he eventually lowered the price of the covers to $100 apiece and gave the DOD a $29,165 refund. "This action is intended to put to rest an artificial issue," said Kitchen, "that detracts from the critically important ongoing review of the 1986 DOD budget." Senator Roth, on the other hand, might have felt he was getting to the bottom of the whole defense- spending issue...
...Steffes further into debt. When they could not get a new $100,000 loan to tide them over, they filed for bankruptcy, reporting liabilities totaling $800,000. While the proceeding was pending, they kept farming, grossing at least $200,000 each year, but losing money nevertheless. Last week more than 100 of Steffes' friends lent moral support at a court hearing over $168,000 owed to the local bank. The bank won the right to temporarily seize the collateral Steffes had pledged on the loans...
Latter in the year, Cornell won 3-1 at Harvard. Nevertheless, the Crimson went on to win an ECAC Championship, and Cavanagh, who never in his career beat the Big Red, reached second place on the all-time Harvard career scoring list (178 points). Cornell, 2-0 against its arch-rival, finished fourth in the ECAC...
...objectives are diffuse: by keeping the Sandinistas off balance, the insurrection may soften them up to make political concessions. Yet concessions require serious negotiations and in January, Washington suspended the talks that U.S. and Nicaraguan officials had been having in Mexico since last June. The State Department is nevertheless still hopeful about persuading Congress to subsidize the contras. "Motley's testimony was only our first shot," said one official. "We have not yet begun to mount our offensive...
...Nevertheless, Reinhardt said she feels some students may decide not to seek formal recourse because they are afraid of repercussions or loss of privacy...