Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still latent in most of us. Experience abroad tends to draw it forth and we almost inevitably find ourselves as Americans announcing to our foreign friends how the individual should have his rights vis-a-vis the state. The Chinese may observe that we in America stand firm for habeas corpus even when we are being mugged in the streets. Their mixture of rights and duties is different from ours...
...sale at a lower price, rerouted pipelines originally bound for the U.S., and signed contracts with France and Canada. When the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) announced its plans to build a fence between Juarez and El Paso, which a spokesman for the construction firm said would have edges sharp enough to cut off the toes of any Mexican who tried to cross it, the Mexican government was willing "to fight to the last barb to tear the thing down," one American living in Mexico said. When the U.S. trade restrictions on Mexican goods oscillated unpredictably, Lopez Portillo voiced...
Partners at one New York City law firm earn an average of more than $350,000 a year. Prominent attorneys in Atlanta are under federal investigation. Lawyer-agents drum up business at the Senior Bowl. Defections from a Chicago firm, a partner purge in New York. And how much will Bakke's lawyer be paid anyway...
...firm; you are stubborn; he's an obstinate mule...
Gold fever in the U.S. is so widespread that it is no longer accurate to speak of its victims as if they were right-wing zealots haunted by nightmares of starving marauders. A more typical buyer is New York Suburbanite Phillip Knapp, who is vice president of a paper firm. With a wife, three children and a six-figure income, Knapp seems every bit the successful American who ought to have confidence that the future will be as good to him as the past has been. But says he: "In 1975 I started to worry about where I could...