Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because we do not consider that people 'own' clean air, clean water, 'quiet' and so on, we cannot easily extract payment from people who use them by polluting them. Hence, the costs of pollution are not usually borne by those that are responsible for the pollution, but instead by the victims." First step toward a solution: more work on a definition of "property rights" in the environment...
...isthmus became known as "De Lesseps' graveyard." A bloc in the U.S. Senate urged a new canal site in Nicaragua-a longer but healthier route. The Panama lobby won out, partly on the argument that Nicaragua had too many active volcanoes. With the payment of $10 million to Panama and $40 million to the defunct French company, the U.S. entered into the most expensive peacetime undertaking in its 128-year history. The final bill was $352 million...
...other hand, police speculate that because Zeccardi's family received demands for payment of $200,000-never made-he was kidnaped by non-Mafia freelancers, and may have died of a heart attack; he suffered from a heart ailment. Whatever the case, the violence has stirred anxieties in Mafia breasts that even Sinatra's mellowest tones could hardly soothe...
...once owned by Palestinians?surround Jerusalem and separate the major Arab population centers from Jordan. Sewer systems, water lines, and roads clearly indicate that these communities are being built to last and that they will be linked to other ones still in the planning stage. The Palestinians are offered payment for the land, although most refuse it, complaining of unfairly low prices. The growth of these new communities?whether authorized by the government or not?is seen by many Arabs as further proof that Zionism means colonial expansion and that the only way Israel can be ousted from the territories...
...which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included a warning that the company should not be "taken for a 'camel ride' in such dangerous territory," evidently referring to shakedowns by unscrupulous go-betweens...