Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the President announced Connally's appointment, politicians and columnists theorized that Nixon might dump Spiro Agnew from the 1972 G.O.P. ticket and name Connally in his place. A relatively conservative Texan, presumably Connally would not offend Agnew's followers. If the Republicans won, then Connally conceivably might find himself in 1976, at a presidentially mature 59, heading the G.O.P. national ticket. The idea is farfetched, although Connally may have indulged it in the privacy behind his hard, savvy...
...fact, the U.S. reaction reflects more than pain in the pocketbook. American executives are enraged by what they regard as Japan's refusal to observe the rules of the game of world trade. Many American businessmen contend, with some justification, that the Japanese dump not only TV sets but also steel, textiles, float glass and radio tuners. U.S. industrialists also complain bitterly (and enviously) about the special help their Japanese rivals get from the Tokyo government: official blessings for cartels formed to win big foreign orders, lavish and extensive government-financed studies of which overseas markets might be easiest...
...equal sex admissions to an abstract discussion of "relative pain levels." The problem, however, and we must be very clear about this, is not single persons, for these people merely embody the characteristics which our educational system, and our society, select for. The problem is fully systematic; the Dump Nixon movement will be no more successful in putting an end to the war than was the Dump LBJ movement...
...proposal to dump wastes into the oceanic trenches [April 5] merits serious consideration. However, by current hypotheses, sediments overlying these trenches are as apt to be squeezed into mountain ranges as to be buried in the earth's interior. Thus, eons hence, mountaineering expeditions could find themselves planting their flags on the garbage of the 20th century...
...Others are installing compromise devices with small holding tanks good for about 50 flushes, which can then be carried ashore and spilled into the nearest toilet. Whatever the size of a holding tank, however, critics point out that its contents end up in municipal sewage plants -which in turn dump their often undertreated effluent into waterways...