Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring that Ford was "giving away" the canal, the President promised, during a campaign visit to Texas, that the U.S. "will never give up its defense rights . . . and operational rights." That was a flat contradiction of instructions that Ford had given to U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, who was negotiating with the Panamanians. Later the White House was forced to issue a "clarification" that amounted to a retraction of Ford's remarks in Texas...
...Archie Bunker seeks sexual fulfillment with a waitress. Rhoda and Joe bust up. Charlie Haggars undergoes television's first testicle transplant. Maude's Arthur goes bankrupt. Ted Baxter has a heart attack in mid-newscast. Lionel Jefferson marries Jennie. Florida loses her husband. McMillan loses his wife, his sidekick and his housekeeper...
Like the name of Rockefeller in the U.S., that of Byung Chull Lee means wealth in South Korea. Now 66, Lee has amassed his nation's largest personal fortune-some $500 million, or enough to put him in the same league with Karim Aga Khan, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Christina Onassis. He made every penny of it himself, building such a profitable group of diverse companies that Korean businessmen say he has a "golden touch." They also view him with fear: Lee does not gladly suffer critics or competitors...
...office by Juan Carlos, who did not want him as Premier in the first place and who considers him too stiff and cautious. Relations between the two men have steadily deteriorated, and it seemed the King wanted a man less beholden to the archconservative Franquistas (known collectively as "the Bunker") as his chief of government...
...mournful-looking man with an unctuous public style, Arias himself has had a sometimes troubled relationship with the Bunker. As Franco's last Premier, Arias launched a policy of apertura (opening) that infuriated rightists, even though it involved such modest gestures as allowing free elections in some municipalities and the formation of certain limited political "associations." Nonetheless, he was imposed on the King by the rightists after Franco's death as the only possible compromise choice for Premier...