Word: l
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner for 25 years of L'Aiglon restaurant in Manhattan, and one of those beleaguered by the President's threat to crack down on taxdeductible, expense-account lunches, I have a question: Who paid for those Margaritas? I would have been happy...
Greenspan defends the drastic medicine prescribed by Proposition 13. Says he: "Such brutal sledgehammer techniques turn out to be necessary to prevent government from continuing to increase its share of overall economic activity." Washington University Economist Murray L. Weidenbaum agrees: "If government doesn't cut rates, people have...
Carter's decisions to cancel the B-l bomber and shelve the neutron bomb were decisively rejected in the survey. A startling 56% of the respondents feel that any treaty with the Russians limiting nuclear weapons would be too risky. Only 32% favor a new SALT agreement. Although Carter counts the Panama Canal treaty a distinct success, the voters who were polled feel otherwise. By 50% to 33%, they consider it a mistake...
...Young women with pointed breasts, sing of sap, sing of springtime." The poet is Senegal's longtime President Léopold Senghor, 71, who has written seven books of verse. In Manhattan to address the U.N. special session on disarmament, Senghor also read some of his poems to 700 listeners at a local community center. "My basic themes," he explained, "are black Africa, brotherhood in suffering, death and, very naturally, love, with emphasis on woman, both black and white." For his next book, Senghor plans a collection of poetic elegies, including one on Martin Luther King...
...same time, Eximbank has been showing new signs of life under President John L. Moore Jr., 48, an Atlanta lawyer who was appointed in 1977. So far this fiscal year, the bank approved direct loans to foreign buyers for $2.1 billion in exports, up from $423 million in the equivalent period a year ago. Last week the bank announced its biggest deal yet: a $732 million credit for the Korea Electric Co. to buy two U.S. nuclear power stations. The project, which will ultimately cost $2.2 billion, will support 56,600 jobs at Westinghouse, Bechtel and more than...