Word: repays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punished process that goes by the name dango. For the Pentagon, dango is an odious practice that inflates expenses by tens of millions of dollars a year on military projects in Japan. In an unprecedented case, the Justice Department announced last month that 100 Japanese firms had agreed to repay $33 million of excess profits on Navy construction projects. Reason: the companies were caught...
...repay his $10 billion foreign debt, he halted imports, exported food, rationed electricity and impoverished the population. He wasted scarce investment funds on giant party office buildings and decided to bulldoze thousands of villages and force farmers into high-rise apartment buildings. His go-it-alone stubbornness in foreign policy was only one more sign of his determination to depend on no power but his own. As it turned out, that was not enough...