Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solidarity. On Tuesday night a few friendly soldiers had shared coal fires with some of the workers, trying to stay warm in the bitter Baltic winter. But early the next day, special armored units and elite Red Beret forces arrived to seize the plant. As six helicopters circled overhead, troops attacked the occupied buildings. They met with only passive resistance from the workers inside. A crowd of spectators was kept to a distance of 500 yards and tear gas was sprayed in the area. At one point leaflets fluttered down from a window somewhere overhead, declaring: "If we give...
...behind, Bureau stuffed 30 rolls of film in his snow boots and rode an unheated train in subzero weather to Berlin with L'Express Correspondent Jacques Renard. Said Bureau: "The East Germans searched everything. They looked under seats with flashlights and brought in ladders to go over the overhead compartments. Then they checked us one by one." The Solidarity leaflets Renard was carrying were confiscated, but he and Bureau were not detained. After arriving in East Berlin, they promptly flew to Paris...
Security mirrors and monitors for the late-night stretches as well as the standard "allowances for theft" of a city business, keep his overhead and thus his prices high, Higgins says. He defends the store against the accusation so many customers level at it--that it takes unfair advantage of its monopoly on late-night business to keep prices unnecessarily high. "There's a lot of competition," he insists, pointing to Sage's and Nini's Corner, the main daytime rivals. "You charge because it costs you money to stay open--any other store here would do the same...
Other matters on the 23-member committee's agenda include alternative methods of calculating overhead, the amount of money the government gives a grantee's institution to cover electricity, water and other basic costs of maintaining a laboratory. Currently each faculty negotiates with the government the amount of additional money the grantee's institution will receive for overhead...
...NUCLEAR NUMBERS game will start up again in earnest when American and Soviet negotiators sit down in Geneva next week to talk missiles. Our side will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing...