Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital every day, to visit his twin sister, who is dying of a bone disease, and has just been divorced by her husband. The narrator's subject is the middle-aged founder of a Southern fundamentalist religion, which ordains anybody to the ministry by request (and the payment of a love offering), a former Bible salesman who did five years in jail for exhibitionism. The other characters are all refugees from every depressing Harold Pinter play you've ever seen-a virtual corps de ballet of nymphomaniacs, alcoholics, homosexuals, and a seventy-five year old Indian millionaire worried about...
...acres of land-mostly Arab-were expropriated for the housing. "No Arab land was taken that was being put to any use," insists Mayor Kollek. "It was all rock, unusable for agriculture. We've tried to build in a reasonable way." Nevertheless Arab owners refuse to accept payment because this would sanction Israel's right of eminent domain...
...care, a free university, etc. The purpose of the escrow account is similar to rent or war tax withholding where due money is held in a bank until the dispute is bargained over or arbitrated. The person withholding his or her money is protected against normal reprisals for non-payment for services rendered. A court case may arise to protect students' dus process and recognize Harvard's obligation to bargain collectively with the union or submit the dispute to binding arbitration...
...Connally relationship had circulated in Texas for years. Though Connally had given some details of his connections with the Foundation in 1961, during his confirmation hearings as Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy, the Times pointed out that "Mr. Connally did not mention that he was to receive payment of his executor fees over ten years." It was only last week that Connally explained his deferred-tax arrangement...
...necessary qualifications. But, said the Army counsel who responded to Aronson at the McLemore hearing, the granting of such privileges is discretionary. Besides, he added with elegant Catch-22 ratiocination, the same military law that grants soldiers the right to civilian counsel then goes on to prohibit any Government payment of expenses; therefore, it would be wrong for the Army to provide mail, phone and transportation services free of charge. When Aronson noted that civilian lawyers for defendants in the My Lai massacre and the 1969 Green Beret double-agent murder cases were given extensive military cooperation in Viet...