Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expand their sphere of influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets have a local advantage in conventional arms. If we had less than rough [strategic] equivalence, I think the Soviets would be willing to be a bit more adventuristic, test a little more, than if there were a rough balance...
...Most Rhodesians are a little bit cynical about what the West is going to do. After the failure of the Kissinger [initiative], we don't trust these chaps who bluff us and then ask us to believe them. We were given a firm, binding contract and we agreed to it. We got a message of confirmation from Dr. Kissinger. We were assured that the British government was party to this. Also the "front line" [African] Presidents. You know what subsequently happened: they started backing out of it, one by one. If that agreement had been implemented, I think...
...time the President will be able to establish a better rapport with his liberal constituents. Greenspan in particular notes that the President's economic conservatism is personal; many members of his Administration are far more liberal than he is, and will put pressure on him to move a bit to the left. If the President does not yield, however, the board meeting indicates that the hottest criticism of his Administration will come not from the Republicans but from some of the most influential members of his own party...
...wrong they were. Less than three years later, raw sugar prices have plummeted to about 11½? in New York -up a bit from late 1976 but lower than they were before the 1974 spiral started. Amstar, the leading U.S. refiner, suffered the largest 1976 sales decline of any company on the FORTUNE 500 list; its revenues fell almost 34%, to $1.1 billion. At that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell...
Blanket Amnesty. According to a cantonal prosecutor's preliminary findings, the Chiasso branch managers saw a chance for a bit of highly private enterprise. Instead of placing the funds in the bank as deposits or in easily salable stocks, they invested the funds in ventures that they set up especially for that purpose. A door connected their offices with those of lawyers who were involved in some of the transactions. From Chiasso, an estimated $880 million was funneled to a Liechtenstein-based holding company called Texon-Finanzanstalt. In turn, that company invested the money in three Italian undertakings...