Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently advised Marcus to award the "emergency" reservoir-cleaning contract to S. T. Grand, and both served as negotiators with Grand. The kickback-5% of the total contract fee-was divided as follows: Marcus, $16,000; Itkin, Motto and Corallo, $8,000 each. Grand President Fried got the contract-payment enough. Corallo also got what he doubt less hoped would be a continuing grip on a high city official...
...range of activities. Energy does indeed reach from oil for the lamps of India to power generated by a subsidiary in Hong Kong. Affiliates also offer lodging in Esso motels and meals from Esso restaurants. The company could probably topple a few governments and settle some revolutions by selective payment of its oil royalties to one faction or another. "It's fantastic," says a U.S. State Department official, "what powers they have and how coolly they play their cards...
...pool in London. Meeting secretly at the Bundesbank in Frankfurt when Britain devalued, the pool governors determined to continue sales of gold at $35 an ounce in order to thwart speculators who bought in hopes the price would rise-which would, in effect, devalue the U.S. dollar. The big payment by the U.S., which has a 59% share in the pool, by no means represented the total cost of the defense. Britain, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands, who hold the remaining 41%, also contributed heavily in defense of the dollar...
...after the Israeli seizure of the scroll, the Bedouins -- who received no payment for the Temple scroll -- no longer trust Kondo or the scholars. It is believed they still possess some 20 scrolls from the 1956 Cave 11 excavation, said Cross. These, and any more they find, will probably be sold on the open market, where they may earn 10 times more money than they would have through the old channel system, where the Jordanian government set a reasonable price and imprisoned those caught selling to anyone who would remove the scrolls from the country...
Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, who presented the proposal, said that the service payment would finance the operations of Hilles Library, the Dean's Office, and other Radcliffe offices which all students...