Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been, if the company had been almost any other. But the SEC specifically alleged that Textron's "chairmen"-Miller was chairman from 1974 to 1978-knew that the company had spent $600,000 on liquor and meals for unnamed Department of Defense officials. Although the agency does not say so directly, Miller presumably should have known that such payments violated regulations prohibiting officials from accepting any kind of gratuity from a defense contractor. The SEC did allege, however, that Textron's chairmen knew that the company kept no accounting of the entertainment, even though its own proclaimed policy...
...participants included some of the leading antiwar activists of the Viet Nam War years. At a rally at Stanford, Daniel Ellsberg urged the students to "mutiny" against draft registration. At Harvard, Nobel Laureate George Wald urged a group of protesters to "take control of your lives. Learn to say no to what you know is wrong." In Philadelphia, the Central...
...draft of any sort; at the same time, they insist on equal rights and duties for women. Said Iris Mitgang, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "I feel tested to the fullest as a feminist when asked whether women should serve. It would be inconsistent to say that my daughter should not register if my son must. And every step of my background leads me to oppose the draft." Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight, women fight. But it is highly inappropriate to ask women to register and maybe...
...also feel that the Western allies should not become involved in smuggling arms to the Afghan rebels. A far safer course would be to leave that task either to China or to the sympathetic Islamic states that condemned Soviet actions at the Islamabad foreign ministers' conference. U.S. officials say that they have no plans to help the rebels directly, on the sensible ground that the guerrillas have no chance against the Soviets...
...palm trees, sometimes thatched roofs on the tanning "huts." Operators charge customers $35 and up for a series of 20 visits, and $125 or more for a year's unlimited tanning. A few offer $500 life memberships. Franchisers talk enthusiastically about the clinics' profit potential, which they say is especially good because the overhead is low and there are no product costs. Some operators have done well, but others have not. A Memphis couple bought four Tantrific clinics for a total of $60,000 in January 1979. They cleared $16,500 in profits on the first one that...