Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth lead, David Levi as Nathan Detroit, is the weakest of the four, but still manages to fill the bill. Nathan should be played somewhere along the line between macho and henpecked-neurotic, the way Sam Levene created the character in the original back in '47. Levi has a nice voice, but it doesn't help much; Nathan doesn't have to sing very often. His characterization seems somehow too neurotic, too much mama's boy and not quite enough swagger for the proprietor of a floating crap game. But he's funny. They're all funny, or at least...
...textile men believe that the great denim shakeout has now "bottomed out" and that better days are ahead. But the market is no longer growing by 17% to 18% a year, as it was in the mid-1970s, and has slowed to a 2% to 3% pace. Levi Strauss, the biggest U.S. blue jeans maker, showed a sales drop in its Jeans-wear Division in the second quarter, to $138 million from $173 million last year...
...Israel's occupation of the West Bank is an accident-the result of a miscalculation by Jordan's King Hussein. At the start of the Six-Day War, Premier Levi Eshkol urged him not to intervene; when he did so, Israel dislodged his forces from the Old City of Jerusalem and pushed them back across the Jordan River. But what began as a temporary occupation of the West Bank has now evolved into a semipermanent "liberation," as Begin calls it. Does this mean that the Jewish state-a nation born of discrimination and a longing for freedom...
...business by supplying Latin visitors with products that either cost them much more at home or are not available at all because of import restrictions. "Some tourists spend their vacation in my store," he says. "They buy their whole year's needs of brands they know-Arrow shirts, Levi Strauss and Wrangler jeans, Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior." When leaving Miami, Latin American tourists often require a second and sometimes a third cab to tote their goodies to the airport...
...itself was supervised by Callahan, Adams and another of Mohr's gambling buddies. After a two-month inquiry, the probers concluded that Mohr had done nothing wrong, the bureau's purchasing procedures were proper, and the games were just innocent social gatherings. Former Attorney General Edward H. Levi dismissed the findings as a whitewash and ordered the FBI to investigate again, under close Justice Department supervision. The second time around, the findings forced Kelley to discharge Callahan for misuse of FBI funds. Mohr, in retirement, was criticized, but Adams emerged unscathed...