Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the divorce settlement, Holm expected about a million dollars, along with $80,000 a month in temporary support, including $16,500 for rent, $12,000 for clothing and accessories, $6,000 for entertainment, $7,000 for household help and $4,000 for travel. "Peter just broke down what they spent in the marriage, $160,000 a month, and divided it in two," explained Holm's lawyer, Frank Steinschriber. "They lived a lifestyle you'd expect Joan Collins to have...
Holmes a Court's accumulation of Texaco's stock may be nothing more than a shrewd gamble on the firm's long-term health and its ability to reach a settlement with Pennzoil. Looking at the company's substantial oil and gas reserves and other holdings, most financial analysts think that Texaco's shares are severely undervalued at last week's closing price of 45 1/8. In the past, Holmes a Court has ended raids on target firms when the price was right. Last August, for example, he said he was seeking a 15% stake in USX. Then, as takeover...
...Soviets have, in fact, seemed somewhat cautious about the military support they now provide Nicaragua. But so far Moscow has been unwilling to abandon the Sandinistas or other Third World clients, claiming that U.S. aid to anti-Marxist forces prevents peaceful settlement of local conflicts. As Oliver North argued in his testimony last week, Cuban troops, serving as the Soviet "mercenary army," are stationed in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Testing the Soviets' true intentions will be tricky; the manipulation of Third World proxies is not an issue that lends itself to formal negotiations. Assistant Secretary Ridgway...
What happened in the Senate Caucus Room last week was a sort of drama of the moral settlement of America. First there was the frontier, the wild places where savages roamed and life was dangerous and action was survival. The pioneer, the early cowboy, the vigilante all kept guns loaded and shot fast. One did not survive by regulations and laws and merely mental, abstract things. Justice was a rougher business, and even at that ran a distant second to coming out of it alive. "The essential American soul," D.H. Lawrence once extravagantly wrote, "is hard, isolate, stoic...
...little, though, the Soviets have been making progress. Two hamlets just beyond the 18-mile security zone were recently reoccupied, and families have started moving back to 16 other villages. The town of Chernobyl itself has been declared largely decontaminated. Thousands of cleanup workers reside in a temporary settlement optimistically named Zelony Mys (Green Cape...