Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special relationship with the U.S. has enabled Mexico to achieve one of the fastest growing economies in the Third World; its gross national product after several very bad years, is once again increasing by about 6% a year. But the majority of Mexicans live in bleak poverty; per capita income was $1,070 a year in 1974, one-sixth of what it was in the U.S. Moreover, Mexico has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, up to half of its work force by some estimates...
...SAVAK's future: Those of us who have reached retirement age will be retired. Those who are not needed or who have bad records will be let go. Others will be transferred to other organizations or to the Prime Minister's office. Some will go to the new National Intelligence Center. It will be worse for the younger agents. They have not been working long enough to prove themselves; yet they are blamed in all the bad publicity, and they can do nothing about it. Now they will lose their salaries. Many of us will have problems making...
...fact, the troubles in Iran would be bad enough even if the country's oilfields were pumping as hard as ever. The reason is the collapsing Iranian market for Western goods and technology, which was illustrated by last week's cancellation of military sales contracts. Until recently, Iran was one of the nation's most important Third World markets, with imports from the U.S. jumping from just $769 million in 1973 to nearly $3.7 billion last year...
Some have made "bad business judgments." Others were "driven by just old-fashioned greed." So said Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last week as 4,000 farmers from as far away as Colorado rolled into Washington aboard tractors and campers to press for higher farm price supports. If Bergland's bluntness was startling, so was the demonstrators' cause. Last winter when the small American Agriculture Movement organized its first drive-in at the capital, farm prices were depressed and many U.S. farmers were genuinely strapped. But now the A.A.M. militants, who signaled their arrival by dis rupting traflic...
...accused Buckley of misusing his position as chairman of the publicly owned Starr Broadcasting Group, Inc., a Westport, Conn., firm owning radio and TV stations throughout the U.S. The charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed...