Word: basing
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Perhaps the most impressive example is Detroit, a city ravaged by crime, poverty, a declining population and an eroding tax base. Practically the last thing local citizens might be expected to fight for is books, but they did just that when a money squeeze threatened to shut down twelve of the city's 25 branches in 1984. Detroit voters bailed out the libraries by approving a $1 million property tax by an impressive margin. In 1988 they renewed the levy. "People think their library will always be there," says Paul Scupholm, head of Detroit's independent Friends of the Library...
Noriega made a different kind of arrival last week at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami. Now he was an accused felon and his hosts -- from the Justice Department this time -- took him to jail. After landing at 2:45 a.m., the deposed dictator was sped to a Miami federal courthouse. There he was posed in a T shirt for a humiliating mug shot, then stashed in a windowless basement cell. Panama's numero uno had become federal prisoner...
...closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...tougher U.S. attitude may already be paying off. The Air Force and Justice Department are investigating charges by Arthur Williams, former chief of the contracts-law division at Yokota Air Base, that another dango association has overcharged the Air Force and Navy about $76 million on $180 million worth of communications contracts during the past ten years. Most of the firms practicing dango were window dressing for a subsidiary of NEC, the electronics firm, which consistently got most of the work...
...Mahal." The two Boeing 747-200Bs are included in the contract of $265 million, a cost now swollen to nearly $650 million, with Boeing and its shareholders stuck for the loss. Throw in an additional $50 million for the new hangar already constructed at Andrews Air Force Base and about $100 million for service and maintenance units. One way or another, Americans are spending the better part of a billion dollars to get their President airborne, and then it will cost around $6,000 an hour to keep him aloft. That is more than the gross national product...