Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a fine example for the U.S.: after all, other states have set up special boards to regulate goats-milk dealers, tree experts, wholesale minnow operators, dealers in scrap tobacco. High time for many of them to fade into the sunset...
...until last January. Then Chicago newspapers reported that he had been collecting $15,000 a year as "vice president" of Sun Steel Co., a post that, in some written statements, he implied that he no longer held. When he was accused of lobbying for legislation helpful to the steel-scrap industry, he denied the charge, but he resigned his post. On top of that, he divulged that in 1974 he declared as personal income-and paid taxes on-$100,000 in political contributions. He maintained that the money was used to retire campaign debts, though he had diverted some...
...claimed that Nixon had gone to China "to hurt President Ford in New Hampshire." Syndicated Columnist David Broder angrily forswore a promise made to himself not to write another word about Richard Nixon. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do in order to salvage for himself whatever scrap of significance he can find in the shambles of his life," wrote the normally even-tempered Broder. "Nothing shames him." The harshest attack came from Goldwater, who claimed that Nixon had violated the Logan...
Ford will face his toughest scrap with Congress over his proposal to stop leaks in the CIA. "I'll be darned if we're going to let the leakers ruin our intelligence community," he said while campaigning in Florida last weekend. His Executive order instructs all Government officials who receive intelligence reports to sign a pledge that even after they leave Government, they will not divulge any information about "sources and methods"-sensitive details on names and techniques of U.S. agents and their foreign contacts. The President also authorized Bush to extend the pledge to any material that...
...swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...