Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporters, Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli paid a visit to Libya's embassy in Rome, hoping to mollify Gaddafi. Agnelli failed dramatically. Last week the Arab League Boycott Committee in Beirut threatened a ban on all Fiat products in Arab nations unless Agnelli sacks La Stampa Editor Arrigo Levi, a Jew who once fought in the Israeli army. Agnelli is sticking with his editor. If carried out, the threat could be a serious blow to Fiat, which last year did an estimated $50 million worth of business in Arab countries. The Arab move would also set a frightening precedent...
Burly Crew. Despite the crush at the Guard, fights rarely erupt. A burly crew of five bouncers keeps order, ousting patrons who utter even the mildest of profanities. Hookers are immediately booted out. A strict dress code outlaws Levi's, tank tops and cutoffs. These rules apparently appeal to the clientele that seeks out the club: a conservatively dressed crowd of nurses and schoolteachers, pilots, salesmen and junior executives...
...Levi and Lewontin some animals strange...
...Brooklyn, and for a year he and his gang of badged deputies ran the village, freely roaming the streets armed with pistols, sawed-off shotguns, rifles, even machine guns. Bollinger himself toted a snub-nosed .30-cal. semiautomatic carbine "enforcer," which he kept tucked in the waist of his Levi's. The police department was so cowed by Bollinger and his bully buddies that, in effect, it ceased to exist...
...Atlanta, a decorator showing drapery samples cautions: "Don't choose anything with cotton-it's sky-high." In Bar Harbor, Me., a manufacturer of sea bags says that he is going out of business because he cannot get any more duck cloth. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. has begun informally to ration jeans and other denim goods to clothing stores. Women's Wear Daily predicts that manufacturers of cotton denim will not be able to accept new customers for "at least a couple of years...