Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Put very simply, the game at the Board of Trade is to bet on the future. Those gesticulating and shoving men are brokers and dealers who are selling each other contracts to deliver goods months in the future at a fixed price-when the real market price may be higher...
Though the two states have been closely scrutinizing each other for decades, they still seem astonishingly ignorant of the way each other's political systems function and the premises underlying policy decisions. Moscow, for instance, appears unable to comprehend the U.S. Congress's fundamental independence. After meeting with Soviet leaders...
PERSIAN GULF. Poor intelligence and diplomatic shortsightedness have trapped the U.S. in an increasingly difficult position in Iran. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would...
The American public does not think of teachers as vital to daily life because they don't deliver instant results. We pay off truck drivers, longshoremen and railway workers with fat increases because we want our goods delivered now, and because it's good business. But when it...
But Carter's standing with the public-and partly as a result, with his party-is much improved. When he stepped up to deliver his speech at Cook Convention Center in Memphis, he received a warm welcome from close to 4,000 Democrats. After a blistering attack on the...