Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McDonnell Douglas, formed by a 1967 merger, has consistently been one of the most profitable firms in the aerospace industry. While most competitors were just beginning to recover from a three-year-old slump, McDonnell Douglas profits last year rose 16% to $129.5 million, on sales of $3 billion. Unlike...
On the Golan Heights, "the Syrians fire sporadically," said one Israeli battalion commander. "We never know when they will begin, and we don't know when they will stop. There is no logic to it." In fact, the logic was to get the Israelis to negotiate seriously. The firing...
Capital equipment for the project will cost $70 million, and operating costs are estimated at $11 million a year. But the investment looks promising. The utility will not only save on its fuel bill and earn money from selling recoverable materials; it will also charge local governments a "dumping" fee for disposing of their refuse. If U.S. utilities follow Union's lead, the nation could conceivably conserve the equivalent of 290 million bbl. of oil per year, recover up to $1 billion worth of recyclable metals and, best of all, gain a final solution to the garbage-disposal problem...
Syrian President Hafez Assad last week reiterated his government's determination to recover all of its occupied territory. As reported by the Beirut daily Al Bayraq, he offered to repatriate the P.O.W.s "if Israel fulfills the Geneva Convention" and allows the repatriation of 170,000 refugees to the Golan...
For more than 100 years, Robert E. Lee has been something of a man with out a country. Never mind that he was one of the most illustrious and magnanimous generals in U.S. history. After he surrendered his sword at Appomattox, he apparently failed to take an oath of loyalty...