Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets the rebels a large shipment of guns. Superfly rambles. But O'Neal, irreproachably cool as Priest, also directed, and provides several tough, inelegantly effective sequences. That puts him a couple up on Shaft. *Jay Cocks
Many businessmen would probably be happy to receive more goods than they ordered, so long as they did not have to pay money for them. Not René Debruyne, a grain and pet dealer in Lille. When his shipment arrived at the port of Dunkirk, he refused to accept custody. He had ordered 20,000 turtles, and his Moroccan supplier had generously thrown in an extra 5,000-but the shipment had arrived three months late. "The summer holidays are approaching," Debruyne explained, "and I couldn't dispose of that many turtles...
Moreover, Nixon made a bid to gain vast new authority over the nation's exports. He asked Congress to let him regulate the overseas shipment of all "articles, commodities or products." He could then personally limit overseas sales of wheat and other grains, the rising demand for which Nixon blames for high food prices at home. The nation would honor prior commitments. But, said Nixon with some jingoism: "When we have shortages and sharply rising prices of food at home, I have made this basic decision: in allocating the products of America's farms between markets abroad...
There is no likelihood that the two leaders will agree to a moratorium on arms shipment. The best that can be expected is Brezhnev's affirmation that the Soviet Union will not actually seek to block any negotiations...
Troyer is only one of thousands of farmers and elevator owners caught in the great rail tie-up of 1973. In Illinois alone, the state's agriculture department estimates, farmers have had 300 million bushels of last year's grain harvest ready for shipment for months, but cannot move it to market. There is a demand for some 12,000 grain rail cars, but only 5,000 are currently available...