Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even approach a farmer and offer to cut his deadwood. Then, says Craig Beek, head of Iowa's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, "Zippo, like a flash, they'll take your walnut trees too." Another ploy is to approach the landowner and ask to buy the trees, promising payment when they are sold to mills. The cutters then disappear with the logs, and the farmer never sees them again...
...nothing about using commercial films to recoup losses or allow financing of other projects. Proceeds from Eliot films have gone into financing a Hitchcock-style film by W. Donald Brown '74, head of the House's society. Profits in other Houses often go into new film equipment or towards payment for the current equipment. (Among film societies the veritable mark of status is ownership of two projectors, allowing continuous showings...
...internal affairs of the host country or contradict U.S. foreign policy. In Chile, most of the U.S. corporations-except ITT-have followed that standard, even at a loss. Ford, for instance, simply pulled out of Chile, wrote off a $16 million loss and settled for a $900,000 payment from the federally financed Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), which insures multinational corporations against expropriation. ITT now stands to lose whatever compensation Allende had promised to pay; and unless the company can disprove the mounting evidence that its loss resulted from its attempt to interfere in Chilean politics, it may also...
...vote" rule last week when it allowed two water-control boards, which deal with irrigation of small areas in California and Wyoming, to be elected by votes weighted according to how much land the voter owned. The "one acre, one vote" principle was based on the fact that payment for the water-management costs was also weighted according to the amount of land. As in the property-tax case, the unsuccessful plaintiffs had alleged a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The effect of the two decisions was to limit the scope of that clause, which activist lawyers had hoped...
...conspiracy" began last May, after the IRS decided that John Heck Jr., owner of the Heck Transfer and Storage Co., a small San Diego moving outfit, owed $9,500 in back taxes and penalties. Heck, 55, had been trying to come up with the lump-sum back payment. But after five months Internal Revenue grew impatient. Using their power to act without any court order, IRS agents simply seized six of Heck's trucks and some office equipment to satisfy the debt. Had Heck's company been a financially embarrassed major corporation, he might have been allowed...