Word: feds
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...Fed up with bad publicity and worried about the potential loss of tourist dollars, the Mexican government last year proposed a prisoner exchange. The U.S. Senate ratified a new treaty between the two countries, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on Oct. 31. Among the treaty's terms: Americans now imprisoned in Mexico would be eligible for transfer to U.S. jails, provided they had more than six months to serve on their sentences, had not been convicted of a political offense or breaking immigration laws and, a key condition, would not contest their Mexican convictions in U.S. courts...
Liberals argue that so long as Burns remains Fed head, Carter cannot get any coordination between fiscal (tax and spending) programs and the Federal Reserve's policies on money supply and interest rates. Says Heller: "Burns tells the Administration what it should do and what he is going to do and hands off what he is going to do and that is it. Replacing him* might make a difference in that it would replace monologue with dialogue." Yet liberals reluctantly conclude that Carter just might reappoint Burns anyway because the President might feel that Burns has become indispensable...
...most and gives you the impression that it just might accept you if you're lucky, most high-school ballplayers fall for the wine-and-dine routine. When prospective footballers do visit Harvard, they are put up on the couch of whoever gets stuck with them and are fed in the dining halls. If you had a choice between Tournedos du Boeuf or Polynesian meatless balls, which would you choose...
...translation seemed to be that the NLRB is simply fed up with Stevens and its antiunion attitudes that seem to anachronistically exemplify the South in its earlier, immature stage of industrial growth. Over the years, the board has found Stevens guilty of unfair labor practices 15 times and hit Stevens with $1.3 million in fines. Last summer a federal court of appeals took the unusual step of warning Stevens that any future violations would bring fat fines of $100,000 each, plus $5,000 for every day the violations continued. That was not really much of a threat; such fines...
Banks canned a layup to keep the cagers within one, but then Williams intercepted a Bobby Allen pass and fed Lombardi, who picked up the foul. He sank both ends of the one-and-one to give the Rams a 68-65 lead with 16 seconds remaining...