Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmer, I compliment you on your excellent story on Charles Shuman, a man I've long admired. It was an accurate, fair account of agricultural problems and the Farm Bureau's position...
Insults & Bribes. By far the most dramatic was the bizarre account of a bungled American CIA exploit in Singapore. Late in 1960, according to Lee, a U.S. agent had flown into Singapore and tried to bribe his way into the city's Special Branch intelligence net. He was taped and filmed in the act, tossed quietly into jail. Lee then offered to free the agent in return for $33 million in U.S. economic aid for his nation. The U.S. refused, said Lee with superb aplomb, and instead "insulted" him with a counteroffer of $3,300,000 for Lee personally...
...symbols of Johnson legislation passed by Congress (a hypodermic syringe for medicare, a schoolhouse for aid to education). His presents were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since 1845; a cowhide portfolio containing a newspaper account of a 1918 visit to Fredericksburg, Va., by Lyndon's father; and a four-foot-high street-refuse bin decorated with photographs of Lady Bird's various trips around the country to encourage roadside-beautification projects. Lynda Bird gave him a photograph album from her travels...
...economy. Many retailers and producers-some of which tried price rises last year and failed to make them stick-have been itching to move for months, sensing that continued high demand and the pressures of the Vietnamese war give them good reason. Moreover, service jobs now account for more than 50% of U.S. employment-the first time that this has happened in any country. Such factors as capacity level and plant investment need not be considered in raising the price of services such as haircuts or dry cleaning, and labor costs in this area push through much faster to price...
...industry's capital expenditures last year−to expand and modernize its facilities. Priority will be given to plants that will produce such products as flat-rolled sheet steel−used in great quantity by Detroit's automakers−and tin plate, highly profitable items that now account for too little a share of U.S. Steel's current production...