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...foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from $2.83 in 1971 to $1.61 in 1973. Moreover, the companies could determine how much ore they would mine and export without consultation with Jamaican authorities. Says Manley: "They were able to exploit the fields without regard to Jamaican economic interests...
...late '60s, the press was reporting on radical activists who attacked, in one way or another, just about every traditional American value. To many Americans it appeared that the press was simply giving a platform to revolutionaries and crazies. Some radical protests seemed staged to exploit TV network coverage?and the networks went along...
...will likely weaken the already fragile two-month-old coalition government (Italy's 36th since the war) headed by Christian Democratic Premier Mariano Rumor. Though Rumor himself kept clear of the referendum, he will now be susceptible to pressures from his Socialist coalition partners. They might try to exploit their victory on divorce-the 1970 law was proposed by Socialist Deputy Loris Fortuna-by demanding more low-cost housing, better schools and hospitals, and increased investment in Italy's underindustrialized south...
...engaged couple, they went apartment hunting in Montgomery. George reported to the class that three out of four landlords slammed the door in the couple's faces. Then he added: "I thought attitudes would be worse, but times are changing." Asked about his son's exploit, Governor George Wallace, who in 1963 physically tried to block integration at the University of Alabama, replied, "No comment...
...Kennedy Corporation has tried, however, to exploit other fears in the community. Last week, for example, they hired a research group to take a elephone survey in which 500 Cambridge citizens were asked, among other things, if the library were not built on the MBTA site would they rather have 1000 condominiums or 1000 offices there instead? You will have to admit, another helluva choice of alternatives...