Word: pers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tonight there is an unusually small group of volunteers. Normally six strong per night, the staff includes only five including a Crimson reporter and photographer. SafeStreets has trouble staffing itself on Saturday nights, when the need for the service is often greatest...
...whether he can raise enough cash. While he claims that he can, several of his highly publicized takeover attempts have fallen through. Among them: his $3.8 billion bid for CBS in 1986. Some airline-industry experts argue, moreover, that NWA is worth about $3 billion, or at least $100 per share. Analysts estimated that the company's Pacific routes and real estate holdings, including $500 million worth of property in Japan, have a value of $2 billion by themselves. Beyond that, Northwest owns more than 230 airliners and has a far-flung route system that extends from Shanghai to Stockholm...
Those rules tolerate large swaths of gray and encourage euphemism. Bribes, graft and expenses-paid vacations are never talked about on Capitol Hill. Honorariums, campaign contributions and per diem travel reimbursements are. Cash gifts, even of $100,000, are not automatically illegal, as long as they are disclosed and the giver has no direct interest in legislation. Neither is free use of posh apartments and expensive cars...
...same salary and benefits, Betty Wright went to work for Mallightco, an investment company that the Wrights had formed with Mallick and his wife. Betty Wright also borrowed $75,000 from Mallightco. After she stopped working for the company in 1984, the Wrights paid $21.67 per diem for the apartment when they used it and then purchased it in 1988 for $58,500. Eventually they bought the Cadillac...
...black-tailed Sitka deer carcass stuck out of a 32-gal. garbage can, and dozens of otters lay in a pile, covered with plastic. Uncounted other victims will never be retrieved. A preliminary beach survey indicated an average of 80 oil-coated ducks and other kinds of birds per 100 meters. Bald eagles have been scavenging the contaminated birds, and the sound's population of 3,000 eagles may therefore be at risk...