Word: extents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...available where the opportunity is great. There are billions of oil dollars in European banks eagerly seeking investment opportunity, and with the declining value of the dollar, they can be invested nowhere more profitably than in the United States. As any real estate broker could tell you, to some extent they are. Nevertheless, the second greatest contributor to our balance-of-payments deficit, after oil, is short-term capital overflow. The problem, again, is not the generating of enough capital. It is keeping it here...
Clamshell Alliance spokesmen said they began organizing the rally on Friday when they realized the extent of the Harrisburg nuclear accident (see other story...
These payments were supposedly designed to disguise the true extent of the dumping, which, according to U.S. Customs officials, was most intense during and after the mid-1970s recession. The kickbacks allegedly worked this way: manufacturers quoted a high official wholesale price but then made illicit payments to their U.S. importers that enabled them to undercut the retail price of American-made TVs by as much as $100. Customs officials and Government lawyers say that virtually all Japanese manufacturers except Sony are implicated...
...whole nor did they successfully tap into the active political movements on most campuses. At Harvard, the student body neither knew nor cared in large part about the conference, and the assembly was only peripherally involved. The Harvard organizations involved in the conference were involved only to the extent that individuals working on the conference also happened to be part of these organizations. The conference, on the whole, never made it onto the political agendas of the campuses involved...
...conduct of foreign policy, Jimmy Carter's presidency has become profoundly personal. His initiatives often emerge from his heart, his reasoning is founded to an extraordinary degree on his religious feelings, and his preparations are made in the deepest secrecy. The extent to which he differs from his predeccessors and has changed his original intentions is only now fully appreciated...