Word: foreign
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...jury charges that Y&R hired Arnold Foote Jr., a Jamaican advertising consultant who the Justice Department contends was also a government official. He allegedly passed along money to Eric Anthony Abrahams, Jamaica's Tourism Minister from 1980 to 1984. Y&R is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids the bribing of foreign officials. The agency denies any wrongdoing...
Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion foreign debt...
Bush's romance with the right has shaped his approach to foreign policy. The President dismissed Democratic complaints that he has been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That remark has several translations, among them: "I don't want the anti-Communist right to accuse me of giving away the store...
American may also find an ally in Washington. Shaken by the upheavals at Northwest and United, which involved extensive foreign financing, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved a bill last week that would prevent any buyer from acquiring more than 25% of an airline without the explicit approval of the Commerce Secretary. When Senator Lloyd Bentsen learned of the attempt to buy American, the Texas Democrat prevailed on the Commerce committee to make the bill retroactive so that it would apply to the Trump bid. "The Congress must send a strong message that highly leveraged buyouts...
...Prague. Last Tuesday, after the first freedom trains had rolled out of Prague, Honecker sealed off the country's border to Czechoslovakia, leaving East Germans isolated and caged once more. There were signs late in the week, however, that restrictions on emigration might be eased, according to West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...