Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexico has used its Contadora connection to put quiet pressure on the Nicaraguan regime. It was probably no coincidence that Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra waited only two days to express support for the Contadora group's July 17 declaration. Mexico, which had been providing Nicaragua with crude oil at 100% credit, recently told Nicaragua that it will now have to start paying off its oil bill...
...differences between U.S. and Mexican foreign policy. It may happen that in some instances we shall differ with U.S. policies. We shall certainly express our differences. But we do not seek that...
Pointless mixing of dissimilar firms now seems finished at Gulf & Western. Says Shearson/American Express Analyst Scott Merlis: "Few of their businesses were related to their other businesses." Instead, the company now seems determined to focus sharply on a few areas: consumer products (apparel, Kayser-Roth; home furnishings, Simmons), entertainment (Paramount) and financial services (Associates Corp...
...American Express apparently leaped before it looked hard enough. Little more than a month after it had trumpeted an agreement to buy Investors Diversified Services, the main subsidiary of Alleghany Corp. and a major marketer of mutual funds and life insurance, American Express last week backed out of the deal The company was admitting, as Wai Street had been saying all along, that the price for IDS, some $1 billion in American Express stock or nearly three times Alleghany's book value, was too high American Express left open the possibility of a new agreement but only with "revised...
Corporations (unlike ordinary folk) at least can take out an ad in rebuttal. Mobil in particular likes to express itself on all kinds of public questions. In an ad, a company is free to put its best foot forward, and if figures are cited, they will almost certainly be accurate. But the reader wonders whether other facts and contrary arguments have been given their full weight. Skeptical questioning is missing. That is the role the press plays, and it plays it best when it keeps a neutral distance not too hand in glove with its source...