Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure I've learned a great deal more by being a father and husband that what I learned from books and classes," he adds...
Count on Dirksen. Obviously there is more to it than Ev's honeyed words convey. Under the Nixon Administration, Dirksen has lost some of his former power and luster. Nixon, 56, is a generation apart from Dirksen, 73, and the President favors younger congressional leaders. Nor does Nixon deal with individual legislative barons in the same intensely personal manner that Johnson did. What is he going to do about Dirksen? If the Senator keeps embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand...
Price-cutting has started as the five major wheat exporters-France, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Argentina -unload stockpiles below the price minimums set by the International Grains Agreement in 1967. France opened negotiations with Red China on a deal to unload soft wheat. Not wanting to be left holding a surplus, the U.S. followed by underselling grain to Germany and Britain. Canadian farmers, prevented by the strait-laced Canadian Wheat Board from breaking the Grains Agreement, could only fume as prices fell. The board finally relented after it became apparent that a free-for-all was shaping...
...happened that Frederick thought highly of Billy. He took him under his shield in far-away Chicago and taught him everything a princeling should know - which was a great deal - about running Armour. He saw to it that Billy, who was handsome and quick-witted, traveled and developed regal tastes...
...flyer at what would happen if dexedrine ever came into much wider use than it already is now here. (For one thing there would be more illness because using it a couple of times in a row really wrecks you for days.) But there would probably be a good deal more frittering away of time. Students wouldn't "sweat" their work as they piled up real-life smelling, touching experiences in their new free time...