Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mississippi," Press Secretary Jody Powell snapped last week. But there was no way of avoiding the contrasting images. On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation 19th century steamboat, waving, dancing and playing a calliope, stepping ashore periodically to shake hands, dandle babies and try to sell his energy program. Back east his top foreign policy aides were engaged in public disputes over who was in charge of U.S. policy in the Middle East and over what that policy should be. The disputes set off dangerous waves. Leaders of black and Jewish organizations, still at odds over...
...over the chaotic country. One measure of its new-found realism was the disclosure last week that Tehran is negotiating with the U.S. for the delivery of at least part of the $5 billion in American arms and equipment that the Shah had ordered. Iran is still anxious to sell back to the U.S. the 78 advanced F-14 fighters that the Shah bought in the mid-1970s, but it is now in need of spare parts for its American equipment, as well as ammunition, new helicopters and artillery. At the time of their victory last February, the ayatullahs rejected...
...Carter Administration's decision to sell 1.5 million bbl. of heating oil to Iran on an emergency basis drew some caustic criticism in the U.S., not only because of the coals-to-Newcastle nature of the transaction but because the U.S. itself is expected to be short of heating oil this winter. But the Administration, in defending the sale, pointed out that Iran needed the oil quickly because of sabotage on pipelines near the big Iranian refinery at Abadan. The White House also argued that the sale could have important advantages for the U.S. in paving a new relationship...
...itch to know what's going to happen next seems ingrained in modern man, and can be valuable, at least to those Wall Street insiders who buy on the rumor and sell on the fact. But journalism's constant anticipation of the news can be like a runner dashing for third without having touched second base. Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked...
...massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced for public consumption. While officials claim that more than 20% of the economy works on an "open market" basis, the only items private hawkers sell are vegetables, spices and such miscellany as incense, pith helmets and plastic shoes. With monthly family incomes averaging $30 and prices up more than 600% above 1975 levels, few can afford anything beyond necessities. Just since 1978, observes one Western ambassador, "the standard of living has declined enormously...