Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire." But there was ample evidence that the negotiations were still, as a high Administration official put it, "on the track." Within a matter of days after the election, most observers believed, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Negotiator Le Duc Tho would fly to Paris to fix the final details of a settlement...
...trouble," Lennie said. "I can't find a job. After all, who wants a coach who's won four games in five years and lost the championship of Rhode Island two years running? When the the Pats lost to Miami, 52-0, I thought I could fix up a trade, me for John Mazur, but allthe Pats would offer was an autographed picture of Brian Dowling, two kicking tees, and a hot dog vendor to be named later. You don't suppose the Crimson touch football team could use a little coaching help? What the hell, you guys would...
...rioting after the government attempted to hold down food costs in Rome by putting controls on many retail food prices-but exempted wholesale prices. Shopkeepers closed their businesses and battled with wholesalers in the streets. The government has lately agreed to let the Italian retailers' association fix the limits on price increases and post them in member shops or street stalls. But wholesale prices are still exempt, and they keep going...
...Banks, who met last week in Washington, D.C., voluntary donations from all sources* yield 85% of the 8.5 million pints of whole blood used in the U.S. each year. For the rest, blood banks must buy blood, sometimes from alcoholics and drug addicts desperate for a bottle or a fix. To satisfy the growing demand for plasma, a blood component used in emergency treatment, research and vaccine production, some companies have even gone abroad. Several American firms are buying plasma in Puerto Rico and South America and, according to unconfirmed reports, underdeveloped West African nations. One American-owned firm, Hemo...
...same kind of political fix, arranged in other ways, has kept the Union Corse narcotics network operating in Southeast Asia since 1948. A large share of the heroin used by U.S. troops in Viet Nam was supplied by Corsican-financed narcotics producers in Laos and Thailand. For about ten years following the French withdrawal from Indochina in 1954, a group of Corsican war veterans ran several small charter airlines whose purpose was the smuggling of narcotics from Laos into South Viet Nam; the lines were collectively known as "Air Opium...