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...facing trial after a caper at a waterfront Coral Gables home. State agents watched while Maristany stood guard and Acosta opened the meter box on the outside of the house and turned back the dial. They were arrested when they went to the front door to receive payment for saving Real Estate Broker James Carbonell at least $180 on his monthly bill. Soon after, a utility representative handed Carbonell a $4,000 bill for six months of unpaid electric service...
...when Filartiga arrived at Harvard three years later. The government has revoked the license of the lawyer representing Filartiga, then imprisoned him. Without a lawyer, Filartiga will undoubtedly lose the trial, and, according to Paraguayan law, the loser must pay the damages and the other's legal fees. Such payment will cost him the clinic...
...Prime Minister [for the first time] our foreign exchange was at rock bottom. It was during my time that we built it up. So we were forced to buy arms even if they were more expensive, if we could pay in rupees. [During the 1950s, the U.S. would accept payment for weapons only in hard currency...
...hope of company officials, who this week kick off a test campaign in northern Utah that promises an unheard-of money-back guarantee if buyers are not satisfied with any 1980 model Chrysler Corp. car or small truck. Anybody who meets normal credit tests can make a down payment, take home a new Chrysler vehicle for 30 days and, if not fully satisfied, return it. He will then get back his down payment, the cash value of any used car that he might have traded in, plus any fees that he paid for the title...
...gain coming in the past three months. Last January, silver was selling for $6.25 per oz., and anyone astute or lucky enough to have bought a typical 5,000-oz. contract for a twelve-month future delivery would have made a killing. For a $2,000 margin payment to his broker, the canny investor today would hold the rights to $127,500 worth of silver, a profit of some 6000% on his investment. What is more, people who hold commodities futures contracts for more than six months have their profits treated as capital gains, taxable at a maximum...