Word: ten-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Correspondence between Dean Ford and Arthur Smithies, Master of Kirkland House, concerning his ten-year "connection" with the CIA. Smithies explained in an interview Friday that he goes to Washington several times a year to give "technical criticism on straight economics research papers" prepared by the CIA on Russia, China and underdeveloped countries. "I have never concealed anything about this connection," Smithies said...
...Ford Foundation, the Avalon Foundation, and the United States Public Health Services are providing most of the construction funds. A two million dollar grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will be used to support faculty and staff over a ten-year period...
...their firms. Though profits on commission transactions will be off from last year, the average 16% that the firms earn on invested capital compares well with any other line of U.S. business. Then, of course, there are those celebrated Wall Street Christmas bonuses -even though many brokers are cutting back a bit. At Merrill Lynch, biggest of all, employees with more than 20 years' service, who collected an ex tra 23 weeks' salary last Christmas, will get only 22 weeks extra this year. Five-to ten-year men will get 17 weeks' extra pay, down from...
Promise of Compensation. Britain's hopes for an economic turnaround were further buoyed by its new financing arrangements. Purpose of the ten-year credit package was to stanch flight from the pound by countries in the so-called "sterling area," which consists of all British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus such other countries as Kuwait, Jordan, Libya and Ireland. Because they hold the bulk of their reserves in pounds, most sterling-area members suffered automatic losses when the pound was devalued-and a number of them have lately been selling off large amounts of sterling...
...invariably be "subverted" by those with weak ones. Michigan residents who want to avoid buying a pistol permit?and having their background checked?simply drive across the Ohio border to Toledo, where guns are sold even at the candy counter of a sleazy hamburger stand. Massachusetts police in a ten-year study traced 87% of the guns used in local crimes to purchases in neighboring states where no waiting period or background investigation was required...