Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kendall said that American businessmen didn't support the Jackson Amendment in 1974," Kuchment said, adding that he owed his freedom to the bill...
Private-enterprise payments to foreign businessmen are "bribery." CIA covert payments to heads of state are "foreign aid by other means" [Feb. 28]. Come on, let's play the game fair. Put the true title on either one or the other...
Large Dosages. Businessmen and scientists joined the public in questioning the validity of those tests. "The FDA has overreacted," snapped a spokesman for the Calorie Control Council, an Atlanta-based trade group. "The physiology of a rat or mouse isn't the same as that of a human," protested William Inman, vice president of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Cleveland, the sole U.S. producer of saccharin, whose output accounts for 65% of the 8 million lbs. consumed yearly by Americans. Researchers pointed to the enormous quantities of saccharin fed the test rats-equivalent to consumption by a human of some...
...allows Carter to act on some of these proposals immediately. But as a courtesy he is submitting them to Congress, where reaction seems favorable. There is some outside criticism. Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such...
...their exports. An extreme Young suggestion in this vein is that South African blacks be brought to the United States for management training, a plan that the current Pretoria regime undoubtedly would rule illegal. "But nothing is illegal," Young has said in response to this objection, "if 100 businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world...