Word: keying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence game played in a market where thousands ride on a handshake and a reliable reputation. Says Robert Petersen of the Petersen Galleries: "I was told that Straw's father was famous and that Steven Straw knew all the important people. We looked on him as a key source...
...time went by, the President, or I on his behalf, came to deal increasingly with key foreign leaders through channels that directly linked the White House Situation Room to the field without going through the State Department-the so-called back channels. Nixon moved sensitive negotiations into the White House where he could supervise them directly, get the credit personally, and avoid the bureaucratic dispute or inertia that he found so distasteful. In May 1971, the Secretary of State did not know of the negotiations in White House-Kremlin channels that led to the breakthrough in the SALT talks until...
...headed the U.S.'s central bank for a little more than seven weeks, tall, taciturn Paul A. Volcker has lost no time in establishing himself as a staunch inflation fighter, dollar defender and hard-liner on interest rates. Since he took charge on Aug. 6, the key rates used to manipulate credit policy have shot up dramatically. The Fed last week raised the discount rate, which is the interest it charges on money that it lends to member banks, by a half-point, to 11%, a record high. Several major banks then boosted their prime rate by a quarter...
...straining the spirit of that agreement as did the berthing of Russian atomic submarines in Cuba in 1970 (see Kissinger: White House Years) or the stationing of MiG-23s on the island in 1978.* Nor is the brigade plausibly a strike force for an assault on Guatemala or Key West. Nor did it arrive recently enough to be a deliberate, mischievous test of Jimmy Carter's will. Nor does it have anything to do with the issues in SALT...
...told Chou that I would accept his basic approach. We outlined the key joint positions, especially the paragraph concerning both countries' opposition to hegemony. Though this later became a hallowed Chinese word, it was first introduced...