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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations, noting that some improvement has already been made. Japan's trade surplus in the first three months of this year totaled $2.7 billion, vs. $6.7 billion in the same period last year. Generally Carter and Ohira hit it off fairly well. Honoring Ohira's request for a "truly American meal," the President served up a barbecued buffalo dinner on the White House grounds, with the Texas barbecue sauce stirred up by the President's chief trade negotiator, Robert Strauss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japan Risks Retaliation | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...increasingly vulnerable to highly accurate, deadly, and cost-effective precision-guided munitions. Yet the defense budget still shows a greater commitment to these weapons: for example, although Assistant Defense Secretary William Perry portrays "smart" weapons as the most important revolution in military hardware since radar, the budget includes a request for a fourteenth, multi-billion-dollar aircraft carrier...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...except for the World War II and Vietnam years. We negotiate strategic arms limitations, yet deploy newer, potentially destabilizing nuclear weapons. We negotiate arms limitations in Europe, yet build up U.S. forces in NATO. We state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal government voices concern over inflation, yet expands spending in a sector which is one of the most inflationary. In short, military spending and force deployments are increasingly in conflict with stated federal policy objectives and military...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

Rudy Bechtal, product manager for Nestle and recent graduate of the Business School, said Nestle has ceased all advertising of the formula and gives out samples only upon the request of governments or medical officials...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nestle Speakers Disagree Over Facts | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

...didn't have a syllabus until very late this year, but I think it is a very good idea to request them." William Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and head of Chemistry 4, said Tuesday. But he added he would be very cautious in declaring too rigid a grading policy in the course...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Poll Shows Freshman Favor Distribution of Course Outlines | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

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