Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payment would, in essence, be the cost of buying the road at a price between $10 and $11 per square foot. But because of legal technicalities, University officials are calling the transfer a "contribution" to the City...
...immediate problem which, is no less serious than it was when it baffled Wood, is finances. The break with the CIA is not as financially serious now as it would have been in years when the Agency provided 80 per cent of the budget, but even $50,000 is proving difficult to replace. In addition, NSA would like to expand its programs...
...goods are on consignment. Among the Headquarters merchandise: prism spectacles that even without drugs make the world seem askew, roach clips (ornamental holders for "roaches," the butts of marijuana cigarettes) and Psychedelic Love Oil, a scented baby oil made by a local perfumer and priced to sell at $1.95 per bottle...
...measure allowing the country to increase its oil revenues by decreeing what price the oil companies must charge. But the law has not yet been enforced, and it is unlikely that it will be in the foreseeable future. After all, oil income has more than tripled Libya's per-capita annual income in the past five years, and much of the money has been spent or earmarked for housing, hospitals, schools and public utilities hitherto unknown in the Libyan desert economy...
...addition, it is said, NSA is not very democratic. The highest officers, who are draft-deferred and earn as much as $4000 per year, exercise almost total control. The National Supervisory Board was a "rubber stamp" for presidential decisions until last week. And the permanent staff of 35 or 40, which has whatever is left of the power, is appointed by the president. It is true that the national congress--one voting delegate from each member college--elects the president, its choice, critics say, is rigidly limited. Future officers customarily are those who have successfully negotiated a chain of training...