Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lewd language. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat disclosed in a taped interview via satellite that he had been asked to send troops into Lebanon. "1 must tell you quite frankly, Bah-bar-ah," said the helpful newsmaker, "this is for the first time." He later congratulated her on her "million-dollar job" and noted somewhat wistfully that he earns a minuscule $12,000. Given time for a debut statement of her own, Walters promised viewers "the best darn news program...
...scandal-ridden city administration that gives Mayor White three cars, a private boat, a near-million-dollar entertainment center called the Parkman House, and unlimited patronage is a deserving target for anyone's tirades. The nine-member city council itself--made up of seven lawyers and an undertaker, all of whom are sometimes too busy to work full-time and are always too close to the Mayor--is a body that deserves strident criticism...
...diplomatic priorities do not originate with Kissinger. The defense of the U.S. economic empire abroad has been a consistent aspect of our foreign policy for decades, from interventions in China at the turn of the century to the CIA-organized coup in Iran in 1953, from Teddy Roosevelt's "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America to the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. In 1935 Major General Smedley Butler said...
...Love Mississippi," Bradford sings of the places that head the roll of racial hatred--Watts and South Boston. Not too many people from Southie could have been there, in the eight and nine dollar seats, to defend their honor. But most of those who did make it to the Charles Playhouse seemed to have no doubts that they'd gotten their money's worth. On the way out, many of them echoed the words of the black man who sat behind me during the performance: "Beautiful," he kept saying. "Beautiful...
HACKENSACK, N.J.--From a distance, it could just be another of the monstrous structures--oil drums, refineries, and the like--that populate the North Jersey neighborhood. Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out to be about the most impressive monument to the multi-million dollar phenomenon known as professional football ever to be constructed on Route 3 in Hackensack...