Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smashing Chinese Faces. Part of the government's dilemma is that it lacks the troops to defend Phnom-Penh and at the same time reopen the Mekong, a critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys...
...trade deficit of $80 million. Swallowing a longstanding aversion to taking credit, Peking had to accept what were euphemistically called "deferred payments" to finance the purchases. Now the foreign trade deficit has leaped forward to an estimated $750 million for 1974; this has forced the Chinese to postpone the receipt of goods that they had agreed to buy from Japan, Australia, New Zealand...
...Conservation in existing structures will be encouraged by a probable 15% tax credit on home investments in insulation up to $1,000, meaning a maximum homeowner receipt of $150. Savings...
Hollingsworth, who is handling receipt of the bequest for the University, said yesterday that he had not yet been given any specific estimate of its size...
...First Communion of Michael Corleone's son. The setting is Lake Tahoe, where Michael, as the new head of the "family," has moved his home office in order to run his casino operations in Nevada. An emptily handsome U.S. Senator commands attention in order to acknowledge receipt of Michael's handsomely empty contribution to the state university's scholarship fund. Inevitably, the lawmaker finds it impossible to throw his Western accent around a proper pronunciation of the new philanthropist's name. Equally inevitably, a boy choir has been recruited to sing a song dedicated to Michael...