Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chiefly intended to benefit Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, which is the nation's biggest commercial sugar user, accounting for about 10% of annual U.S. consumption, and is headed by his longtime friend J. Paul Austin. At a Senate hearing, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long told Bergland, "I would call the existing sugar program a Coca-Cola program." Replied White House Aide Lynn Daft: "The Coca-Cola charge is an outrage." Still, in a July 7 memo to Carter, White House Assistant Stuart Eizenstat recommended that the President indicate his "willingness" to raise tariffs, at least to cool off Congress. Carter...
...along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto the farm bill." Mount told TIME Correspondent Greg Wierzynski last week that the comment-which he does not remember making-was nothing more than an idle boast. Said he: "I apparently violated an old rule, never to discuss business...
...Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, the cooperative societies envisioned by Prime Ministers Michael Manley of Jamaica and Forbes Burnham of Guyana. Despite their great differences, these socialisms have several things in common. First, all these societies call themselves socialists, although their beliefs may be rooted less in Marxism than in nationalism or an indigenous phenomenon like the communalism of tribal Africa. Second, largely because of their experience with colonialism, they reject capitalism as identifiable with imperialism and exploitation. Third, they pursue policies aimed at decreasing the role of private property in the economy and sharply curbing investment by private foreign...
...entered it. People were spread out all along the side of the run, and there was a normal level of noise, except all of us were sitting together, pretty drunk, screaming our heads off. Now, we used to call Joe 'The Ranger,' and Patterson was always 'Tonto.' So these people thought we were nuts, because we were yelling for the Ranger and Tonto...
...talked to Mary Lyn about twice a week on the phone. I'd just call her up, and there would never be any change, he would have just lost more weight, and his features were more deformed. He'd gone into the position with his elbows bent and his toes and hands pointed in, typical of comatose people with serious brain problems." Bob had had a natural-death will drawn up in California the year before, requesting that his life not be preserved by artificial means if he were severely incapacitated. His parents refused to honor the will. Near...