Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening nightlight was clearly the tribute the Hawaiian club paid to its native state. From the club's opening "ALOHA" to the warrior dance to the final hula, the audience watched spellbound. After it ended, everyone joined in a heart-warming, if stomach-turning, rendition of the Samoan National Anthem...
...speech, Packwood also criticized the Democratic Party for what he called a "conspiracy of silence" regarding bribes allegedly paid to Democratic members of Congress by Korean investors...
Malaysia claims that people who leave Viet Nam in such fashion are not refugees but illegal immigrants who should be refused asylum. Others disagree. "These people," says one Western refugee official, "have risked their lives escaping what they consider intolerable conditions. The fact that they paid bribes doesn't make them any less refugees than were Jews who escaped Nazi Germany. Many of those people paid bribes...
...purposes, he agreed to sell it to a partnership of investors for an inflated price of $100,000. They put up only $40,000 in cash and gave over the remaining $60,000 in nonrecourse notes made out to the promoter. Very often these notes were never paid off. Still, the partners got tax writeoffs of $100,000 because the stone depreciated with every print produced...
...Chirico produced a series of images?his pittura metafisica, or metaphysical painting?that altered the history of modernism. His empty colonnades and squares, populated by statues and shadows, exerted a vast influence on the growth of a specifically surrealist art. Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dali all paid homage to the liberating power of early De Chirico. He seemed to have made the actions of the dreaming mind more accessible, vivid and poignant than any other painter. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human...