Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coin a phrase, the end of an era. Cronin's Bar and Restaurant, considered by many students to be one of Cambridge's landmark watering holes, has sold last week to the owner of the Swiss Alps restaurant, Eric Imhof...
...defiance. Nixon rightly sensed that there he would find, unregenerate, some of the believers he described to H.R. Haldeman in the spring of 1973, when his Administration was in the first stages of its slow-motion collapse. "All Nixon did was stand by his friends," said the local motel owner in Hyden. "And that is one of the traits of us mountain people...
...David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli, etc. The triumphant new owner, who paid $30 for it, identified herself as Geneva Hooker...
...based on oil. Tucked between the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, the sultanate sits on an estimated 1.6 billion bbl. of petroleum. The government owns a 50% share in a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, whose wells pump 230,000 bbl. per day; it is also one-third owner of the world's largest natural gas liquefaction plant. Brunei's revenues should surpass $1 billion this year, and the national surplus, already $2.5 billion, will grow by another $700 million...
...tough grilling by the Senate Banking Committee about bribes paid by Textron to spur sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran. His cool, precise answers convinced all the Senators except Chairman William Proxmire that he had had no idea that the Shah's brother-in-law was the secret owner of a company to which Textron paid commissions. Some documents that subsequently came to light indicate that lower-ranking Textron officials did know, but there is no evidence that they told Miller...