Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack that sin, which is precisely the one that the agency is supposed to commit, Fulbright called USIA Chief Leonard Marks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject was junkets-with which Senators are familiar-specifically USIA payment for the transportation of 30 to 35 Asian and European newsmen to Viet Nam. Fretted Fulbright: "Doesn't this point to a possible conflict of interest that might compromise the objectivity newspapers owe their readers...
...Assuming the standard 10% deduction and an average state tax payment...
Foreign contractors and advisers proposed roads, schools, power plants, harbors and sewage systems. Shakhbout always refused. In one rare moment of weakness, he agreed to build a modern hospital, then later refused to equip it. Merchants who called on the sheik to ask payment of long-standing debts were thrown out of the palace. When Shakhbout's 600-man police force protested about overdue pay, he fired half the force...
Polish & Thrust. Though no stranger to finance, Sherfield will be the first nonbanker to preside over one of London's 16 elite merchant banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
...forenoon of a blazing August day, a blond, husky young man strolled into a hardware store in Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition. As he calmly wrote a check in payment, the clerk inquired with friendly curiosity what all the ammunition was for. "To shoot some pigs," he replied. At the time, the answer seemed innocent enough, for wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas...