Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Progress has been slow with environmental protection Try a different approach Virtually all professional economists favor taxing polluters per unit of discharge. Such a plan could save bilions of dollars, and, more important, provide unavoidable incentives not to pollute...
...establish what Joy calls "limited but very workable contacts" with their new neighbors. One of the more active such channels is a Marine check point on the airport highway about a quarter of a mile from the compound's main gate; the Amal has set up a similar unit about 200 yards down the road. The leathernecks regularly converse with the miltiamen in an effort to keep relations smooth. One sore point arose over the Marines' use of German shepards trained to sniff out explosives carried by passing cars and their occupants. Dogs, explained the Amal, are considered...
...expected, the Marines are unable to turn the military base and airport over to the Lebanese Army, the last contingent would probably leave secretly at night. The unit's departure would be announced only after its 100 or so members, carrying little more than their personal weapons and kit bags, are safely aboard Sixth Fleet ships...
...ideology loses its hold over the young, the regime must strengthen the grip of nationalism. In school, children are drilled constantly on the heroic deeds of earlier Communists, especially during World War II. Teen-agers regale visitors with exploits of this or that World War II unit, complete with names, numbers and battles. The history lessons are selective: no mention is made of Soviet unreadiness for the German attack, for example. The U.S. role in the victory is underplayed...
...balance sheet had become debt heavy Fox says that by 1983, Sallie Mae's capital base had grown to about $100 million while the debt of the corporation was nearing $7.5 billion. "We had a corporation that had 75 units of debt for each unit of capital, which is about four times what most commercial banks have," Fox says...