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Next the ACTWU turned its ire on the New York Life Insurance Co. by announcing that it would run its own candidates for the board against Finley and New York Life's chairman R. Manning Brown Jr. A contested election would have cost the insurance firm as much as $6 million to mail ballots to its policyholders, and New York Life decided that it was not worth the fight. Stevens' Finley was again knocked off a board-this time New York Life's-and he was furious. Meanwhile, Brown, who had earlier vowed not to give...
...filled his speech with anecdotes, saying John Quincy Adams told his mother the "mere mention of the word attorney' incites the ire of others...
...immediate focus of U.S. ire is Japan's reluctance to open up enough of its government contracts to foreign bidders. Specifically, the U.S. wants to be allowed to bid on high-technology items like computers and switching equipment bought by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co. (NTT). But NTT vigorously opposes foreign bidding because the company has worked closely with several Japanese suppliers in developing its computer technology, which it protects like a mother bear guarding her cubs. Yet such technology is precisely where the U.S. has an edge, and could expand in what will be a growing industry...
...French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation but would be blamed for intensifying tensions in the Middle East. But breaking the $350 million contract and risking Iraqi ire was unthinkable. Iraq is France's second largest supplier of oil, and the reactor deal has also helped keep the French trade deficit from spiraling higher...
...next day" after Teng Hsiao-p'ing's return from Washington, Pravda protested that "no propaganda twists and turns will help cover up the responsibility of those circles in the U.S.A. that facilitated, directly or indirectly, Peking's actions." The attack on the U.S. was preposterous, but the Soviet ire was understandable and predictable. Nothing about the new U.S.-China relationship has pleased them...