Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businesses who belong to the Latin American Manufacturers Association. Since Aceves founded LAMA 18 months ago as a militant means of nailing down more contract work, he has captured $8 million in business for members, mostly from non-Latin companies. His current goal is to secure a bigger chunk of the $5 billion Alaskan pipeline project for LAMA'S members. He also plans to expand LAMA by opening chapters in Spanish-speaking communities in New York City, Houston and Chicago...
...Financiers have long felt that a great deal of the oil producers' new wealth will ultimately find its way into the American securities markets, where it is badly needed-and, no one seemed disconcerted last week that Europe and not the U.S. had received the first major chunk. There are a lot of petrodollars to go around. Kuwait recently has begun pumping money into shares of unidentified U.S. and European companies, and Abu Dhabi plans to buy a major interest in a big office building in London. Sultan Qabus bin Said of Oman even got into the act last...
...news that is always bad. The World Cup this summer has made it easier to stomach inflation and the defections of the politicians. Whether it is right in terms of the potential!ties of the human soul for people to think more of the kicking around of a chunk of leather than of Hamlet and Bach's B Minor Mass is a question best not argued. The Fussballweltmeisterschaft has brought nations together in unlethal rivalry, and that cannot well be shrugged off as a lot of fussball about nothing...
...rest will come from all over--some from other Ivy League schools, some from other colleges in the Boston area and some from small black and Chicano colleges in the South and Southwest There is always a sizeable contingent of foreign students, mostly from Japan, as well as a chunk who live in and around Boston but go to college in other parts of the country...
...good on Nixon's implied promise that the country's top legal officer would know how to use wiretaps to fight organized crime. Last week that promise, like so many others from the law-and-order Nixon Administration, collapsed dramatically. The Supreme Court ruled that a sizable chunk of Mitchell's taps were improper and illegal. At one stroke, the decision wiped out nearly two years of dogged work by federal investigators, and imperiled at least 60 cases involving no fewer than 626 accused gamblers, narcotics dealers and other racketeers...