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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington this week?and Syria's Hafez Assad. The three ledfders found the portents discouraging. If Washington is unable to exert pressure on the new Israeli government for a settlement, one Syrian official said, "any kind of peace conference would be quite useless. The only other way would appear to be to resort to military action...
Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel will never be the same. Braille plates now appear next to elevator buttons. Wheelchair ramps curve down from entrance doors to parking lots. Telephones, in lowered booths, sprout oversize dials; buried inside them are enlarged amplifiers. Upstairs, 396 rooms come equipped with safety bars in the bathrooms; downstairs, the kitchen caters to Seeing-Eye dogs...
Those included what was described as a confidential company report prepared by Barton outlining a system for making "special payments" out of Switzerland to British Leyland distributors and agents. Among the abuses mentioned was a practice of overbilling distributors so that they would appear to have little taxable profit; secret cash payments would then be "suitcased" to them-literally carried in satchels-or deposited in numbered bank accounts in Switzerland or Liechtenstein...
...Losers. On balance, the Saudis and the Emirate allies appear to have been winning the price war. Despite winter storms that hindered tanker loadings at Saudi ports and heightened U.S. demand for imported petroleum, the lower Saudi and Emirate prices forced the increase in the average world price of oil to remain a couple of percentage points below the posted 10%. Now, as warm weather reduces heating-oil demand, the world oil market has softened somewhat, making price more important than ever. As a result, Saudi and Emirate sales have been soaring; Saudi output, averaging 10 million...
...stuck. Visions of a thousand Dick Van Dyke reruns dance through my head as I tried to appear casual, groping for the emergency phone that wasn't there. She said nothing all along, and I am convinced to this day that she never even knew that I was in the elevator with her. She existed on some distant ethereal plane of straight proud noses and beautiful smiles, neither of which I possess...