Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious dangers for America do not arise from its so-called political weakness, but from the inability or unwillingness of its people to deal with problems like inflation or the waste of oil and natural...
...eight hours, the President and a dozen advisers explored all the troublesome options they might choose to deal with both threats. They came to no sweeping decision. But by the time they emerged from the woods to face the harsh political realities of the capital, Carter had decided to lay out a new energy policy for the nation this Thursday. Late last week Carter also announced that his Administration would step up monitoring of prices and he would use "all his legal authority" to ride hard on future price increases...
...high value the Hasidim place on personal honor sets the tone for the street, where packets of diamonds worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are traded by verbal agreements. Says one dealer: "If I broke my word in a deal, the word would be passed, and I would be dead in the business. No one would talk to me. I would be shunned...
...seller has told the broker what price he wants, and the broker wanders the room soliciting bids. When he gets a good offer, he "seals" the packet, which pledges that he will talk to no more potential buyers until he presents the offer to the seller. If the deal is closed, the broker says "Mazel" (luck in Hebrew) and the buyer replies "Mazel un brucha" (luck and blessing), a ritual used around the world, whatever the ethnic background of the participants...
...advice on how to tackle the system has universal application: "If you want your complaint to be examined by a high official, complain about his immediate subordinate ... And, most importantly of all, you should write enormous numbers of complaints and send them to the officials least equipped to deal with them." One objective of these tactics was to cause unsightly bulges in the official statistics, "the most powerful factor of all in Soviet life...