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...whose independence from Moscow the U.S. has long encouraged. Yugoslavia is the third largest recipient of American surplus food (after India and Pakistan), has taken almost $1 billion worth. Lately it has been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called the Findley Amendment...
Within the second month of operation, some hospitals were in financial difficulty due to the influx of Medicare patients, he said. Payment of these patients are much slower than those of other patients due to the Medicare bureaucracy. Rouse said that hospitals in Dallas, have to wait for all receipts to be sent to Baltimore, processed, and then sent back...
...Paris stores have lately been nervy enough to question big checks drawn on Rothschild accounts. The bank hopes that the cards will end what one irritated Rothschild officer described as those nasty incidents that "occur from time to time, when a merchant insists on calling us before he accepts payment by check. It has proved embarrassing for us and for our clients...
...amounts that corporations had to ante up in 1966. Second, in June, the Treasury ordered corporations to pay their withholding taxes for employees twice a month instead of only at each month's end. While these two actions did not really boost taxes but simply made for earlier payment, they had the cosmetic effect of temporarily making the budget deficit appear smaller than it was. Corporations borrowed billions from the banks to pay for the speedup. In effect, the banks had been obliged to finance the narrowing of Johnson's budget deficit...
...help illuminate the larger ones: how a flock of pigeons took wing from the roof of the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald fired his first shot; how an undertaker, before driving Kennedy's body to Love Field, asked a reporter whom he should ask about payment. Manchester saw the film of the actual assassination no fewer than 75 times...