Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chrysler's problems with the test-driving fuss are not over. The No. 3 U.S. automaker (1986 revenues: $22.6 billion) faces at least three lawsuits, a trial that could begin as early as August, and possible fines of up to $120 million in connection with the furor...
...owes much of its significance to the refined negotiating skills and political savoir faire of a succession of French Finance Ministry officials who, in the words of former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann, "have rolled over a vast amount of Third World debt with a minimum of fuss...
...from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space age, and at every stage, a nation full of grateful believers making a constant noisy fuss over a piece of writing barely equivalent to a short story: much theme, no plot and characters inferred...
...ordinary Americans, much of the fuss about the appointment may have seemed puzzling. Significant as the Fed chairman's actions have often been in U.S. monetary history, the management of the nation's central banking system is shrouded in obscurity. The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is one of seven presidential appointees who as a group oversee 25 branches of the central bank, which is organized into twelve districts nationwide.* Ordinary governors serve 14-year terms, while the , chairman is chosen for four years. One purpose of the board is to regulate the behavior...
When Oliver North wanted to get something done quickly, secretly and with a minimum of fuss, he called his friend Richard Secord. In November 1985 Secord came to the rescue of frazzled White House officials by deftly diverting a plane that was scheduled for a weapons shipment to the contras to help transport arms to Iran. As North later wrote admiringly to Admiral John Poindexter, "Why Dick can do something in five minutes that the CIA cannot do in two days is beyond me -- but he does." Another time North wrote, "a man of many talents ol' Secord...