Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without any sophisticated communications network, the companies employed "agents." bagmen who, for exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have sold "more arms than anyone else...
...Pakistan's new military government was shocked and saddened. When he saw Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Rawalpindi two weeks ago, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq confronted the deposed Prime Minister with several charges of crime and misconduct. As Zia told the story later, "I said to him, 'Sir'-I still called him that-'Sir, why have you done all those things, you whom I respected so, who had so much?' He said only that I should wait and he would be cleared. It was very disappointing." So disappointing, in fact, that Zia approved a court...
Overdrafts It has been established that Lance, his wife LaBelle and nine other relatives collectively amassed huge overdrafts. At one point in the confirmation hearings, Senator Javits asked Lance whether the overdrafts were repaid to the bank with interest. Lance responded, "Yes, sir." That may have been true of the period from mid-1974 to 1975. But the comptroller's report confirmed that Bert's and LaBelle's overdrafts from 1972 through the first five months of 1974 were repaid without interest...
Loan Collateral During the July hearings, Senator John Glenn asked whether the loan from the Chicago bank was "fully collateralized, or was it just a personal loan?" Responded Lance: "No, sir, it was fully collateralized." To the contrary, the comptroller's report shows that FNBC approved the $3.4 million with $1.6 million unsecured by collateral. As late as July, according to FNBC records contained in the comptroller's report, collateral was only valued at $2.8 million...
...preacher. Tohra, however, says that this does not mean Bhajan is the Sikh leader of the Western Hemisphere, as he claims. The Sikhs do not create such offices. Nor, Tohra adds, has the committee given Bhajan the rarely bestowed title, Siri Singh Sahib (the equivalent of saying "Sir" three times), which he uses...