Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There would be conflict in an 8 a.m. decision on banks, suggested Edwards, a 9 a.m. decision on oil, a 10 a.m. decision on airlines, an 11 a.m. decision on communications and a noon decision on insurance. Replied Rockefeller: "I think that's absurd. The decisions you refer to affect the American people. They don't affect the Rockefeller family." Throughout, he was at pains to separate his family's wealth from the actual management of companies. "I have not followed the management of the companies I invest in. They are investments for investment, not for control...
...been subsidizing the West Bank ever since Israel's occupation in 1967. As for what you describe as King Hussein's defeat at Rabat, I assure you that Rabat was a victory for Jordan and the Arab world in the face of Israeli intransigence. Only the media refer to the outcome of the Rabat conference as a defeat for Jordan...
...knew this basically in the fall of '69 from a number of people, one of them being Morton Halperin, one of them being John Vann, I'll mention him now because he's dead, and some other people in the government. I refer you to Roger Morris's piece in the Washington Monthly, in which Morris discloses--he was Kissinger's assistant--that Henry Kissinger came back from his first meeting with Xuan Thuy in September of 1969, and asked his staff including Morris to prepare full plans for a "savage" blow against North Vietnam that would bring them...
...Reserves usually refer to grains - such as wheat, corn, sorghum, rice and soy beans - not needed to meet immediate demands. They can be in storage, in transit or in the lield ready to be harvested. Most food statistics use grain as the common measure because it is the major source of calories for man and provides the basic teed tor animals...
...prospect of importing vast numbers of guest workers from other nations, as Western European powers do. Iranians are not sure they like the idea. There are sizable groups of foreigners in Iran already; the U.S. community, many members of which work on military-assistance programs (and who refer to the Shah as "Ralph" in conversations that his secret police might find critical, and thus un constitutional), is already 15,000 strong...