Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perfecta--The cry of a successful fixer...
They're off--Another fixer's cry, signifying that the injections have taken effect...
...White House had seen enough and sprang into action. Carter, who had earlier put his chief political fixer, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of Jewish issues, invited key Senators to breakfast to discuss the Middle East. Vice President Walter Mondale was sent to San Francisco to deliver a foreign policy address on the Middle East, stressing the fact that Israel would not be asked to withdraw from its occupied territories until it was assured of "real peace." The President spent 40 minutes with visiting Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Carter told Goren that he did not expect Israel to return completely...
...Jack Molinas, 43, master fixer of college basketball games in the nationwide point-shaving scandal of 1961, and later the producer of hard-core sex films. He was shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975 for cheating Mafia loan sharks...
...case, an American businessman who wanted to comply with the blacklist would have trouble finding out whom he was supposed to discriminate against. The list is constantly changing as firms are added-sometimes for unfathomable reasons-and others are dropped, often after paying the right fixer or offering lucrative investments in Arab lands. The only copy of the list that Washington has is dated 1970. Among those on the list: Motorola, CBS, Republic Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, RCA, Xerox, Lord & Taylor, Owens-Illinois, Ford, Coca Cola, Zenith...