Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
...deal: inflation may turn out to be no worse than expected this year. That about sums up the import of the news last week of a slowdown in wholesale-price increases in July. The month's annual rate of 6.2% was about a third less than the rises in May and June, and the smallest jump in four months...
Excited by the oil prospects that he saw in China, he foresees a three-way trade between capitalists and Communists. In Abboud's view, the U.S. will sell oil equipment to Peking. Then the Chinese will ship oil to Japan. Completing the deal, the Japanese will continue to send their cars, cameras and appliances to the U.S. Result: the U.S. will pay for its Japanese imports by selling drilling gear to China-and there will be oil for the lamps of Japan...
Under an arrangement with Grumman made in 1970, Page was paid a $30,000 commission for every plane sold, even if Grumman itself did the selling. Now Page has lost this deal, and a scandal has plunged Wilmot's businesses into legal troubles, including grand jury investigations, in Washington and Rochester and charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission of illegal payoffs...
Redemptorist Theologian F.X. Murphy, a shrewd observer of papal politics since the Second Vatican Council, singles out two qualities that the new Pope must have: "pazienza e presenza, " the patience to deal with a pluralistic, decentralized church and the commanding presence to lead and guide. Similarly, U.S. Sociologist Father Andrew Greeley, in a detailed "job description" for the next Pontiff, concludes that he should be a "hopeful, holy man, who can smile, delegate responsibility and trust other human beings." If he is, Greeley observes, "it does not matter whether he is progressive or moderate...