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...long it took the Internal Revenue Service to cash your quarterly income tax check. Cavanagh discovered to his astonishment that it had taken 22 days. Granquist had made his point, and soon after that Cavanagh joined him at OMB with a clear mission: help the Government recoup some of the many millions of dollars it wastes annually through sloppy cash management...
...Left Radical alliance had failed to gain a majority, lagging 1.2%, or 334,213 votes, behind the center-right coalition headed by Giscard and Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac. A number of ultraleftist parties not affiliated with the coalition polled 952,661 votes. Although the Socialist-Communist alliance could conceivably recoup its losses and in the second round gain a small majority of seats in the National Assembly, its chances of radically transforming French society were now remote...
...drives of Miller and Anheuser, the sales of Milwaukee-based Schlitz slipped last year from 24.2 million bbls. to 22.1 million, and pretax profits plunged from nearly $97 million to $35 million. The Uihlein family (pronounced Ee-line), which controls 75% of the stock, is squabbling over methods to recoup. Chairman Daniel McKeithan Jr., an Uihlein in-law before his divorce in 1974, has brought in some outside executives and is seeking a new advertising agency to change the company's cheap-beer image. Schlitz is also thought by some to be for sale; merger talks with cigarette-making...
...sell bulletproof vests. "Let's face it," says a longtime American res ident, "if they're losers in the States, they're going to be double losers out here. They all figure that because of the pressure the country's under they'll recoup their losses in an eleventh-hour windfall...
...Benduzek also apparently felt entitled to a $6,000 boat, a $12,000 mobile home, a vacation trip to New Hampshire with neighborhood children-which she paid for with the depositors' money-and to $2,000 in losses at the race track when she tried desperately to recoup...