Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build up stocks, and now they have stored 217 million bbl., vs. 207 million bbl. at this time last year. As a result, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan last week said that the Government will stop its three-month-old program of paying $5-per-bbl. subsidies for imports of foreign heating oil refined in the Caribbean. This was an ill-conceived scheme that enraged Europeans, who charged that Washington was forcing up the price of heating fuel worldwide...
...currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there are some $225 billion in dollars in foreign central bank vaults and $500 billion more in private hands outside the U.S. For a generation the dollar's dominant currency role reflected U.S. global might; its decline mirrors America's shrunken role...
...fact, when all the extra costs are added in, the total will actually be $325 million, give or take a million or two: ABC has also contracted to build a broadcast center at the Olympic site and to provide foreign networks with a clear signal out of the U.S. Even so, the network is certain it can fulfill Pierce's boast. "You can assume, making the bid we did, that we did a lot of homework," said Roone Arledge, president of the news and sports divisions. "We came into this with the idea we were going to make...
...from its Communist backers. But there was no rush to the barricades in either Moscow or Peking. On the afternoon of May 10, Dobrynin came to the Map Room of the White House. Out of the blue, he asked whether the President had as yet decided on receiving Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev, who was in Washington on a visit. The request could only mean that the Soviet leaders had decided to fall in with our approach of business as usual. Trying to match the Ambassador's studied casualness, I allowed that I probably would be able...
...foreign policy event of the Nixon presidency evoked such outrage as the Christmas bombing. On no issue...