Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Free trade be damned [April 18]! The first and only obligation of officials in Washington is to the American people! The Japanese worker is living off the fat of the American land at the expense of the American citizen. Our economy depends on our own workers in our own companies producing goods for one another and the balance of the citizenry. The Japanese would make us a nation of onlookers, not workers...
...Street conference, the other with the NATO summit, which Carter will also attend in London. "What he likes," says Brzezinski, "is a combination of detailed information and a large overview. He is a very quick study and has a photographic memory. He doesn't like to have a fat notebook with him when he sits down at the meetings with other world leaders. It's a point of pride with...
...Baltimore's U.S. district court, meanwhile, former CIA Supply Officer Edwin Moore went on trial for allegedly trying to sell classified documents to the Soviet Union (TIME, Jan. 3). Moore was apprehended last December after tossing a fat manila envelope into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's residence in northwest Washington. Thinking that the packet might be a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore...
...Lear jet over there, he said, is leaving for Miami and Caracas today. They're small, those Lears, he said, but they can make it to Miami in 2 1/2 hours. We said we'd take that, and were wondering whether we'd brought enough suntan oil when the fat blue executive appeared. This time he walked us to the gate...
After an hour or two another efficient policeman appeared. The airport was private property, he said; the street was his property. That didn't leave us much room. The policeman smiled. In his sunglasses we could see the dark clouds racing behind us. As the fat blue executive watched from a steamy office window, the policeman offered us a ride to the highway. The Miami-bound Lear jet still sat, sleek and ready, on the rain-slicked pavement...