Word: quids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often dirty and complicated: big money is solicited or offered with outrageous strings attached. Rarely has the taint of scandal been as strong as it is this year, and our cover story this week takes a nationwide look at the givers and takers, the mechanics and motives, the quid and the quo of modern campaign financing...
DISARMAMENT. While the Democrats talked about limiting nuclear weapons, Nixon got the SALT talks going and has begun a chain of agreements. He showed that he is willing to compromise but not give up an American advantage without a quid...
...charge that the Administration last summer settled antitrust suits against ITT in exchange for a $400,000 pledge by an ITT subsidiary to help underwrite the Republican National Convention in San Diego. The settlement was relatively favorable to ITT, though by no means a bonanza, and no specific quid pro quo arrangement has been proved. Indeed, it seemed naive to suggest that a superconglomerate with assets of $6.7 billion would try to buy the favor of the Department of Justice for such a comparatively trifling sum-or that it could be successful...
...much experience in dealing with politicians, mostly foreign. Some of its best customers for telephone and telegraph gear are European and Latin American governments. Dealings with these government officials are often on a straight quid pro quo basis. For example, in bidding for a government contract abroad, the company might offer to build a plant in an underdeveloped part of the host country. Close ITT watchers do not find it the least unusual that the company-or, for that matter, many a large, powerful firm-when threatened with antitrust prosecution, would approach Administration leaders directly and do everything possible...
...your Nov. 29 review of political campaign contributions, you cite three examples of quid pro quo: 1) dairy farmers' self-interested donations linked to an increase in milk-support prices; 2) a bribery attempt to dismiss fraud charges; and 3) my proposed 1968 donation (never given) to Hubert Humphrey if he could promise an early end to the war in Viet...