Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak of this affair...
Earlier I indicated that if Harvard is to come out of this affair at all honourably it must either divest or remain with Gulf and take appropriate moral action. Like the President, I agree that the morally courageous thing to do is to stay with Gulf; but unlike him, I have an entirely different conception of the kind of action that will justify an involvement with Gulf. Let me close by suggesting what such morally justifiable action might...
...incident, it said, violated "both the letter and the spirit of the U.S.Greek bases treaty." The U.S. is currently negotiating to incorporate home port privileges for the U.S. Navy into the treaty. After the U.S. protested its innocence, however, the regime formally absolved the Americans of involvement in the affair...
...foster child of ten, I dreamed that someday I would be the guest of honor at just such an affair, talking about the struggles of my childhood and how I overcame them. I particularly liked the part in my dreams when I gave myself a standing ovation." Humorist Art Buchwald, 46, was telling it like it had been to the sesquicentennial brunch of New York's Jewish Child Care Association. His fantasy that he was really a Rothschild who had been kidnaped by gypsies didn't quite come true, but as a columnist for the Paris Herald Tribune...
...approved the antitrust settlement-and handed Democrats an easy opportunity to portray the Nixon Administration as too readily swayed by giant corporations. More generally, it has reopened an old debate about whether business bigness, particularly conglomerate bigness, is bad. Business men around the U.S. complain that the ITT affair has hurt them, too, because it has blackened the image of business in general and given fresh fuel to its increasingly vocal critics. In Latin America, the ITT case has given gleeful leftists the opportunity to aim their attacks on imperialistic Yanqui business against an identifiable company rather than a fuzzy...