Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jealousy or pure inattention, U.S. Presidents have seldom used or even properly broken in their Vice Presidents. John Nance Garner, who served from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Roosevelt, described the job as "a spare tire on the automobile of Government." Almost every modern President promised that he would upgrade the vice presidency and exploit fully the talents of the man who occupied the post. None succeeded...
...help encourage economic growth, the EPA proposes to designate all regions where the air is relatively pure-namely, the more than 80% of the U.S. that is still nonindustrial-as Class II. The states would then be able to either upgrade or downgrade the designation after holding public hearings...
...prosper." Inspired by it, Yoshida eventually derived his own rule for running a company: one-third of potential profit should be sacrificed in order to hold down prices, another third should be used to help customers with discounts and rebates, and only the final third should be retained as "pure profit...
...they are expected to hit $625 million, on which Yoshida looks for a "pure profit" of 9%, or $56 million. More of those profits will belong to employees than to Yoshida; the company's 13,000 workers in Japan have acquired almost two-thirds of the stock through a generous profit-sharing plan...
Whatever the Greeks thought about U.S. intentions, Washington claimed neutrality in the Greek-Turkish dispute. It was "pure baloney" to say otherwise, said Robert McCloskey, an aide to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The U.S. threatened to cut off arms aid to both sides if they went to war. Kissinger himself talked with Caramanlis and Ecevit by telephone and urged the Turks not to use further force. He later offered his offices as mediator, either in Nicosia or Washington. In a gesture to placate Greece, the U.S. pulled out Ambassador Henry J. Tasca, who was far too closely identified with...