Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tente. "Our American guests," he declared, "know better than we about those who oppose international détente, who favor whipping up the arms race and returning to the methods and procedures of the cold war." Everyone at the table knew whom Brezhnev was aiming at: Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 62, the blunt, stubborn, increasingly powerful leader of the U.S. opposition to détente-and a hard runner for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Americans have always had mixed feelings about their press. In folklore, the reporter is Superman's alter ego, but he is also the Front Page cynic who would trade in his grandmother for a scoop. By way of a more elevated example, almost everybody (at least among journalists) remembers Jefferson's famous remark that if he had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would pick the latter. But few recall that Jefferson also wrote on another occasion: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper...
...three. Its ice cream is a little softer than the ice cream at Baskin-Robbins or Bailey's. Bailey's has by far the most charm of the three--marble floors and highquality ice cream--but its selection is limited and its prices high. A Bailey's single scoop cone is 40 cents, as opposed to 30 cents at Brigham's and Baskin-Robbins...
...this week whether to renew Ex-Im's lending authority, which expires June 30. There is no doubt that Congress will keep Ex-lm alive, but probably with new limitations on its autonomy. Last week the Senate Banking Committee approved an amendment drafted by Democrats Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois that would require Ex-lm to give Congress 30 days' advance notice of any proposed credit of $50 million or more; Congress could then veto the loan. Tougher restrictions could be added on the Senate floor...
...corporations have to pay 11½% or more interest on borrowings from commercial banks, the Soviets are getting Ex-Im money at 61/2%. Iran is paying around 6% on Ex-Im loans of $877 million to finance such things as oil refineries, airplanes and diesel locomotives-even though, as Scoop Jackson points out, Iran is awash in oil dollars. Casey persuasively defends the rates as competitive with those charged by export-finance agencies in Britain, France, Japan, Canada, Italy and Germany. If the Soviets and Iranians cannot get cheap credit from Ex-Im, he says, they will go elsewhere...