Word: accountable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pahlavi Foundation and several others, established ostensibly to fund charitable activities, like aid to the handicapped. The New York lawsuit asserts that the Iranian state budget "provided annually a subsidy of approximately $10 million" to the foundations. In addition, it says, "plaintiff [the Khomeini government] is unable to account for several billion dollars of revenues earned by the National Iranian Oil Co. between 1973 and 1978." In 1976 alone, it asserts, Nice's receipts as published by the company were $1 billion less than the NIOC earnings reported by the Central Bank of Iran; the suit implies that...
...Explaining that loan rates can be negotiated, the Forbes magazine editor urges readers to take a firm stand with their bankers: "Insert the term 'banking relationship' into the conversation like a nicely greased thermometer and mention the imposing size of your checking and savings account balances. If that doesn't get you at least a centigrade or so more cordiality - to say nothing of a quarter to a half point lower rate - maybe it's time to consider taking your business to a more receptive environment." Be yond that, he skips lightly over financing a house...
...place between 1959 and 1966, when the fetal and infant death rate was much higher than now. Thus improved methods of caring for expectant mothers and newborn infants may have obviated some of the harm that could result from sex during pregnancy. Also, the analysis did not take into account the effect of intercourse before the last month...
...when the Pope isn't singing. Grin and bear it in the Christian spirit. Appreciate it for the moments when you can hear the Pope warbling away. He has a very appealing voice...charming...he's especially hear-warming and endearing during "On a December Night." A very convincing account of the birth of Jesus...
...faculty prose-writer, Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology, wants as his present "a little free time" and "a lot of publicity for my book." (Vogel recently published a popular account of Japanese society and economy entitled Japan as Number One. Merry Christmas, Professor...