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...Saturday, Israeli warplanes returned to southern Lebanon for the third straight day, once again directing their fire at Palestinian guerrilla strongholds. In the meantime, the P.L.O. announced that it had launched the latest in a series of rocket attacks on northern Israel as a "down payment" on its promised retaliation for the "air massacre" that the Israelis had committed in Beirut. At week's end an alliance of leftist Muslim groups in Lebanon called for the stationing of Soviet-made SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Beirut. Such a move would challenge Israel's command of the skies over...
...Bailey was bargaining with Cities Service, he and eight other top Conoco officers deftly moved to protect at least themselves in the merger game. Conoco's board of directors gave them new employment agreements that guaranteed the payment of their salaries at least through mid-1984. Bailey's own arrangement called for annual pay of $637,716 until 1989. Observed one cynical Conoco employee: "They equipped themselves with golden parachutes." The company also lined up $3 billion in stand-by bank credit. Conoco executives intended to buy back a large chunk of company stock from the shareholders...
...ensure impartiality, members of the Independent Educational Counselors Association, a finders' professional organization formed in 1976, pledge to refuse any fees or payment from schools they recommend. It was not always so: in the 1930s, when private schools were less crowded than they are today, payments of 10% of tuition to finders were standard...
...1960s governments fearful of the future convertibility of the American currency started turning in more and more dollars for gold. At the same time, French President Charles de Gaulle began a campaign to restore the full gold standard, proclaiming its merits as a form of payment that is "eternally and universally accepted." On Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon finally ended the gold-exchange system, when he announced that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars for American gold...
Last April, five months after Campos had gone to work as an assistant in First Variable's payment transfer office, Prestes opened a $2,500 account with the fund...