Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy toward Allende's Chile included withdrawal of all foreign aid except to the military, wholesale cuts in World Bank, Export-Import Bank, and private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouthpieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITT also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
Jessie Small is not much different from other cutters, except that he is one of the best in the business. When he started out cutting in 1951 with a secondhand $4,200 John Deere 55, custom cutting was a rough and raw business. The crews slept on beds of newly cut grain in the back of their trucks, and even when they were not actively brawling in bars tended to be as welcome in farm towns as a band of crazy gypsies. But by the early '60s, cutting had become the respectable family business it is today. Wives...
...embattled dollar. Said Lawrence Krause, an economist with the Brookings Institution: "The Administration is playing it very wisely so far. You don't want to panic the markets the other way and shoot up the value of the dollar. Dribbling these things out is just right to keep everyone except yourself guessing." The White House, in fact, plans to announce some new but limited measures to bolster the dollar every few days for the next two or three weeks. Before going off on their separate vacations, President Carter and other top Administration officials drew up a list of possible moves...
There wasn't much good that anyone could say about Gary Tison except that he inspired a remarkable loyalty from his family. Imprisoned at the age of 25 for holding up a grocery store, he used a meeting with his wife Dorothy as an opportunity to escape from a visiting room in Arizona's Final County Jail...
...badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement in living standard there has been, if any, has not been dramatic. At night, Hanoi reverts to a kind of overgrown country village. Except for an occasional bicycle or a strolling policeman or two, there is virtually nobody on the silent, dark and lifeless streets...