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...pleasant change," offhanded His Royal Highness to President Alfredo Stroessner, "to be in a country which isn't ruled by its people." As the continent's sole surviving dictator glowered around the room and underlings intently began to contemplate their fingernails, Philip quickly sought to recoup by implying that he was merely expressing his pleasure at temporarily escaping Britain's Lord's Day Observance Society, which perennially criticizes the royal family for attending sports events on Sunday. "Here," beamed the peripatetic prince, "the government decides what is to be done, and it is done...
Originally, Du Pont had hoped to recoup its $50 million investment within three or four years. Now it figures that competition will delay recovery by as many as ten years. Buyers, however, stand to benefit. One month after Celanese announced its intention to market Celcon, Du Pont dropped the price of Delrin from...
...Kennedy and said: "This is the first time Jack Kennedy ever lost anything." The fact of defeat was jolting, and the President showed it. In the weeks that followed, he seemed unsure of himself and willing to attempt almost anything that, by any conceivable stretch of the imagination, might recoup the B.C. position. He even got himself involved in the ill-advised attempt to trade U.S. tractors off for captured Cuban rebels...
...Convair backed out of the commercial jet business with the 880 fiasco, it might have held its losses to perhaps $100 million. Instead, in an attempt to recoup its 880 losses, Convair decided to build a long-range jet, the 990, which, by using the then new fanjet engine, would fly faster (635 m.p.h.) than any comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price...
...Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home in their rage over the fact that after they had paid the customary fee to General Moghadan to win election, Parliament had been dissolved before they had a chance to recoup their investment...