Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both camps realize the situation full well. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's frank, perceptive campaign manager, might be speaking for the President's men when he says: "People like Gerald Ford. They think he's honest. They think he's well intentioned. A lot of people in this country think he's been a very strong President. People are just coming to know Jimmy Carter. They like him. They think he's honest. They think he's well intentioned. A lot of people have made a tentative judgment that Carter would be a stronger President. I think the election will turn...
...asking for commissions that might have netted him $1 million if The Netherlands decided to buy any of the corporation's P-3 Orions. Angered by Lockheed's apparent refusal of his request, the prince wrote: "Since 1968 I have in good faith spent a lot of time and effort to push things in the right way in critical areas and times and have tried to prevent wrong decisions influenced by political considerations. So I do feel a little bitter...
...groups average about five or six marriages a year between the clients themselves. Commenting on the swingles system, former U.S. Information Agency Director Carl Rowan, an avid Washington tennis player, observes, "It's a safer and healthier way of getting a date, but it sure costs a lot more than buying three martinis." Confided a single girl at a New York City tennis club: "It's not like being picked up in a singles bar. At least you have tennis in common...
...Warsaw. The business has been lucrative. Commissions and miscellaneous fees can add up to $2 million on a $200 million loan-and that does not count later collections of interest. In addition, Communist countries have a good record of paying debts promptly. Says one American banker: "There is a lot of merit in lending to a stable, centralized, planned economy...
...downtown areas all across the U.S. In recent years the markets have taken root in such disparate cities as Louisville, Syracuse, Santa Fe, N. Mex., and Honolulu. This year alone, farmers have opened new beachheads in Pittsburgh, San Jose, Calif., and Birmingham, among other cities. At the Greenmarket, a lot on Manhattan's East Side, 18 jovial farmers and their families roll their trucks in from upstate before dawn and roll out past dark with sales of as much as $16,000 worth of produce in their pockets...