Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European economic and monetary union but toward a single foreign and defense policy for the European Community. Although Thatcher is personally a strong backer of Israel, Tory policy is likely to be more pro-Arab than under Callaghan. There are also strong indications that Thatcher will promptly authorize the sale of 250 or so Harrier jet fighters to China, a move that will both outrage the Soviets and disturb the U.S., by increasing Soviet fears of a possible Sino-Western military alliance...
...whose attitude toward apartheid is apt to be worse, not better. The money thus realized must be invested for several years in South African government securities paying an interest rate about half that of the market. In other words, one must pay a ransom of some 40% of the sale price to the government that is the very cause...
When Harvard sold its Morgan holdings, a "very senior" University official explained the Corporation's decision to a "very senior" Morgan & Co. executive over the phone without announcing the sale to the press, Cabot said...
...security rands, both of which the world market commonly discounts at 25 to 40 per cent. Since the most recent two or three years have seen many deficits and limited profits in U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa, it would seem that a sizable share of the proceeds of any sale of assets there would be dealt with by the South African Foreign Assets Control officials as old profits requiring such a license. I understand that security rands are not currently legal tender in South Africa, and that the government bonds in question are likely...
...tact or taste. "Nothing I wrote was untrue," she snaps, when he accuses her of humiliating him deliberately. She closes the discussion by citing her work's endorsement by contemporary society's highest authority: "I think I'd better warn you that I've had interest in a movie sale...