Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President kept returning to Dean's possible strategy...
Beginning April 15, 1973, Nixon kept in almost daily touch with Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, as the President cooperated fully in the Watergate investigation. St. Clair admitted that the President sometimes got confidential information from Petersen about the progress of the Justice Department's probe and passed it along to his suspect subordinates. This was not done to protect them, St. Clair argued, but to let them know that others were talking to the grand jury and so they must tell the truth. It was this kind of action by the President, sweepingly claimed...
Chicken Tax. Holder of a hereditary fief granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565, she kept her latter-day serfs in most agreeable thrall. "What was good enough for William the Conqueror is good enough for us!" was the grande dame's battle cry against the incursions of modernity. As a result of her efforts, the farmers and fisherman of Sark pay not a farthing of British income taxes; neither are they plagued by automobiles, transistor radios and unemployment...
...week's end the Secretary flew off to his greatest challenge-persuading King Faisal to invest his excess oil dollars in U.S. Treasury securities. Simon expects Arab oil revenues this year to reach about $60 billion, two-thirds of which he anticipates will be kept in the Arab world, leaving about $20 billion free. In Jidda, the former Wall Street securities dealer launched an effort to sell the King on investing $10 billion of his surplus in U.S. Government notes that would pay about the same as Treasury bills. Even if the Saudis accept his proposal, the notes...
...faith in aquaculture, or sea farming. In Washington, Biologist Jon Lindbergh, son of the aviator, is pioneering in the farming of salmon. After the fish come home to spawn, their eggs are collected and hatched in incubators. The fry are then raised until they are large enough to be kept in offshore pens for harvesting. On St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lamont-Doherty scientists have successfully grown oysters, clams and scallops in artificial ponds, using nutrient-rich water piped in from the depths of the Caribbean...