Word: chromed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is not enough space here to deal with the activities in South Africa of all companies linked with Harvard, but three more may briefly be mentioned. Union Carbide was long noted for breaking mandatory sanctions on Southern Rhodesia by importing chrome from there. The U.S. government finally made this illegal in 1976, but Union Carbide now refines chrome in South Africa and ships it to the U.S. from there. Where that plant's ore originates is problematical. AMAX has invested in one of the largest Namibian mining companies, Tsumeb, together with other American and South African companies, Falconbridge...
...understood that "emotions were running high" at the White House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...
...threat to southern Africa very seriously. After all, in the U.S. you're almost self-sufficient in your main raw materials. We are very far from being self-sufficient. We have to get many of our strategic materials from southern Africa. There is no major source for chrome other than southern Africa, apart from Russia, and about 80% of the oil required by the Western countries has to come around the Cape...
Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...
...they come through that door." Though still maintaining a confident front, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Salisbury, white Rhodesia is becoming deeply demoralized. Last week's vote by the U.S. Congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment, under which the U.S. has been importing Rhodesian chrome since 1972 in violation of U.N. sanctions, will have little effect on the Rhodesian economy, since U.N. sanctions are being violated clandestinely by dozens of countries, including the Soviet Union. As a symbol, however, the U.S. action was the latest in a series of jolts to the Rhodesians' battered...