Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fraud in one county, he searched for a lawyer to fight his case and was directed to Kirbo, who had by then moved from Bainbridge to a top law firm in Atlanta. Kirbo had the suspicious ballot box impounded and opened. There, sitting on top of the otherwise orderly pile, was a wad of 111 ballots that had been clumsily stuffed into the box. "I could have fainted," recalls Kirbo, who never expected to prove the case. Carter then won the general election by 1,500 votes...
...Meloy and his companions had reached their destination safely. The first sign that something was amiss came when Driver Moghrabi's wife received a phone call advising her that her husband and two other men had been kidnaped. Several hours later three bodies were found on a huge pile of garbage close to the seashore, where a new American embassy building is under construction, at least two miles from where the ambassador was last seen alive. One of the first at the scene was Jean D. Hoefliger, the International Red Cross delegate in Lebanon. Lifting the bloody blankets...
...been filled by a few trained Angolan blacks, the few whites who stayed behind and an influx of Communist helpers (mostly Cubans, Yugoslavs and East Germans). They have helped Luanda to limp along, but nonetheless most restaurants have closed for lack of food and fuel, mountains of uncollected garbage pile up, and street crime is on the increase-more because of desperation than avarice. Almost every day, the government paper Diario de Luanda rages against "reactionary elements whose antisocial behavior is sabotaging our revolution...
...face of accusations that the Point was trying to cover up the whole story, Berry last week assembled 300 members of his staff and declared: "That's a pile of horse manure. It's going to be a long summer. Somehow we've got to get ourselves organized to get this traumatic experience over as quickly as possible. It's a painful thing, but we are paid to do tough things in the soldier business...
Corporate treasurers, indeed, are actively trying to avoid borrowing from banks; they remember too vividly the pain of 12% interest rates. Instead, companies are using their higher profits to repay past debt and in some cases pile up huge reserves of Treasury bills and other securities that can quickly be turned into cash. The idea: when the company needs money, it can sell the securities rather than borrow. Even when they do borrow, companies are shying away from banks and either selling commercial paper (a kind of IOU) at rates below the bank prime or tapping the bond market...