Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise cash to make payments on international debts. Many countries are chopping down their forests for the sake of timber exports. In Central America forests are giving way to cattle ranches, which supply beef to American fast-food chains. The pressures on forests have led Janzen, who has spent 26 years struggling to save Costa Rica's woodlands, to conclude that "everything outside parks will be gone, and everything inside the parks is threatened...
Michael Milken, his wife and three children spent the day strolling through midtown Manhattan, looking for all the world like just another clan of holiday shoppers. But for the workaholic Milken, the idyll ended when he received some distressing news: the company that stood by him through almost two years of Government investigations had abruptly decided to settle its case with prosecutors, effectively cutting him adrift to fight his own battle. The junk- bond king, 42, who has created billions of dollars in revenue for Drexel, made hundreds of millions for himself and ranks as the most influential financier...
...Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The deal calls for Drexel to plead guilty to six felony counts involving mail, wire and securities fraud and to pay a record $650 million in penalties. Some $300 million of the fine would go to the Government, which has spent an estimated $10 million prosecuting the case so far, and $350 million would be set aside to compensate the victims of Drexel's wrongdoing...
During the nearly two years that the Government spent preparing its case, Drexel defiantly declared its innocence and launched a major advertising campaign extolling the civic virtues of its junk bonds. Joseph claims that the two-year federal probe cost Drexel $1.5 billion in lost revenues and an additional $175 million in legal and advertising fees. Since November, the firm has bargained for an agreement that, as chairman Robert Linton put it, "would not make us look like a bunch of thieves...
Critics are quick to point out that no nuclear reactor, either water-cooled or gas-cooled, is totally safe as long as it produces radioactive waste. The U.S. alone has generated thousands of metric tons of "hot" debris, including enough spent fuel to cover a football field to a height of three feet. Said Sir Crispin Tickell, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations: "The fact that every year there is waste being produced that will take the next three ice ages and beyond to become harmless is something that has deeply impressed the imagination...