Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, a happy denouement still remains to be written. For a real breakthrough in relations to take place, the U.S. must lift its trade embargo against Viet Nam and allow at least a modest level of aid to flow there. There is no great rush on the part of the U.S. Government to proceed with either aid or trade. Says one State Department official: "We need to know clearly and precisely just what the Vietnamese really want, and then take a long look at the situation...
Perhaps the most menacing sign of loss of faith in the dollar is the wild gold rush that shoved the price of that indestructible metal to a close of $208.50 an ounce last week-up 25% so far this year. The boom has been primarily a dollar phenomenon. The price of gold in yen or marks has changed only slightly. But from Hong Kong to London, gold markets that once were the preserve of diehard fundamentalists are crawling with investors-corporate treasurers, money managers, individual speculators-eager to turn dollars into the metal that has always been a mystical symbol...
...Dark-skinned Arabs flirt with pale northerners. Africans peddle snakeskin handbags and handcrafted jewelry. Dogs, children and wind surfers turn sand and sea into a hazardous obstacle course for casual bathers. In France the separation of "nude" and "family" beaches has been almost completely, well, swept away in the rush to expose as much skin to the sun as possible...
...hooked the lines to towering outriggers and began a slow drift that would take us 30 miles north before dawn. The once deserted sea suddenly seemed like a freeway at rush hour. Huge tankers glided out of the night, quiet as cats. Flickering orange lights marked the miles-long strands of line set by commercial fishermen. A minicity blossomed around us -the lights of other fishing boats, and perhaps a marijuana smuggler...
...House subcommittee headed by New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal has discovered that hundreds of corporations have been deducting their grass-roots lobbying efforts as a business expense despite clear congressional and IRS declarations that they may not do so. A few lobbyists seem to be in an unreasonable rush to cash in on the money available in the business. Two former aides of Senator Ribicoff tried to start their lobbying careers by advertising their services to help Americans working abroad lessen their tax burdens ?for a fee of $200,000. Ribicoff has denounced them, and their fellow lobbyists...