Word: soled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft, who was Kissinger's deputy and then successor as National Security Adviser. But what sets this firm apart from others is Kissinger, who retains his clout even though he was frozen out by the Reagan Administration. Kissinger is sole owner of the firm, which grosses an estimated $5 million a year...
...some irony in the fact that the county involved happened to be California's Marin, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Local officials, however, were quick to point out that pockets of deserving poverty did exist amid Marin's hot-tubbed sybaritism. But then the trust's sole asset, a 7% stake in the obscure Belridge Oil Co., was gobbled up by Shell Oil Co. for a whopping $260 million, and even some Marinites began to wonder whether they needed that much charity...
...Green knocked off Penn, 90-69, last night to regain sole possession of first place with only two league contests remaining for each squad...
While no one at NASA will even speculate on when shuttle flights might resume, other knowledgeable officials cite the sole precedent: after a fire destroyed an Apollo spacecraft on the launching pad and killed three astronauts in January 1967, it took 21 months before manned space flights resumed. "We've got to reckon in about those terms," says New Jersey Republican Jim Courter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who follows the space program closely. The moratorium could be shortened if the flaw turns out to be something that can be fixed fairly quickly. But it could stretch...
...five years Maria Unzueta's sole source of income was a monthly welfare check. Separated from her husband, the San Diego mother of four made do on benefits totaling $7,920 a year. But now Unzueta, 39, is part of a local job- training program for welfare recipients in which she works 40 hours a week as a hospital file clerk and makes roughly the same amount of money she was getting on the dole. Under the workfare program, she still receives child- care benefits worth about $130 a month, but she hopes to be completely self- sufficient soon...