Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are angry that they will have to rent the room for up to $200 a meeting. Complains a frequent user, Climene Gerfen: "Our money went into this building. They say it's government money, but that's our money, isn't it?" Says Ovrom in return: "Everybody wants it both ways. They point to other people's programs and say, 'That's wasteful, that's not essential...
...took us seriously. They counted our votes. But we have been ignored while they romanced every other voting bloc in the house." The caucus members were upset over a deal engineered by ERA lobbyists with another black representative, James C. Taylor. He agreed to back the amendment in return for being named co-sponsor of the bill, thereby improving his chances of being named assistant majority leader next year...
...Cyprus' ceremonial chief of state every two years. Turks have also offered to surrender about 5% of the 1,375 sq. mi. occupied during the invasion, to reopen the airport at Nicosia (the island's capital) and to allow as many as 30,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to the Turkish-held city of Famagusta...
Both Premier Caramanlis and Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou have rejected the Turkish proposals as a form of de facto partition of the island. Their counterproposal demands more limited Turkish-Cypriot autonomy, a guaranteed return to their homes for the majority of Greek-Cypriot refugees, and withdrawal of 29,000 Turkish troops still on the island...
...talks with Carter, Jones uses the right buzz words. If businessmen are going to risk money to create jobs, he says, they have to earn better than the current 4% real return on investment, which is way down from the almost 10% of the mid-1960s...