Word: im
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downey opened her stellar performance with a five-second margin of victory in the 100 yd. IM with a 1:06.8. She then set a team record with a 27.0 second 50 yd. freestyle. Downey finished by taking the 100 yd. freestyle in 59.0 seconds and participating on the winning 200 yd. freestyle relay team...
...Kearns case, Democratic Senator William Proxmire accused the former Ex-Im Bank chief of arranging while in Government service a lucrative sale of stock that was in a "blind trust." Under the rules for such a trust, the beneficiary is not supposed to know what is being done with his stock. Proxmire demanded last week that the Justice Department take action against Kearns. The department had earlier investigated Kearns and said that it found no cause for criminal proceedings...
...have refused the sale." In any case, Mitsui did buy, at $5 a share, 100,000 shares of Siam Kraft Paper Co., a Thailand concern that Kearns founded. At the time (1972), Proxmire estimates, the stock was worth no more than $1.75. While Kearns was head of the Ex-Im Bank, which makes low-cost loans to foreign firms so that they can buy American exports, the bank approved 37 separate loans to Mit-sui's parent company in Japan, by Proxmire's count...
...real characters of the alley. They cover the entire spectrum of stereotypes. There's the beer-bellied, loud-spoken bigot--"See that guy, he just got off. Happy as shit. Killed some fuckin' nigger the other day, runned him right over. Hadda go ta court today. We got 'im clean though; fuckin' judge lives right down the street from me. I spent Saturday afternoon over his house, lookin' at his car. Guy runned right over that nigger, but the judge lives down the street from me. Jeesus, he's happy..." And the bald-pated cigar-chomping businessman who looks like...
...Soviet Union when it won the job of designing the foundry for the huge Kama River truck plant. But, says Donald Morfee, Pullman's vice president responsible for Soviet operations, "We cannot expect business to continue at its present pace without a renewal of credits from the Ex-Im Bank...