Word: spokes
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Still, in the solecism sweepstakes, Washington took second place to Northern California. Verbatim, the lively quarterly that eavesdrops on American conversation, quoted the San Francisco police department's program for "carrying out crime and punishment" and Bay Area talk shows that spoke of "wheel chairs and other types of illnesses," of suicide that was "self-inflicted" and of a remark that "really irated" the speaker...
Carter sought to blunt some of the conservative reaction by indicating that normalization would lead eventually to a bonanza for the American economy. He spoke to reporters glowingly of "the new vista for prosperous trade relationships with almost a billion people." U.S. trade with the mainland now totals only about $1 billion a year. Says Ping-ti Ho, an expert on China at the University of Chicago: "The reason the Chinese have not bought from the U.S. is largely related to the absence of full diplomatic relations. Normalization will remove this barrier...
...signs point to an inside job. According to police, only three robbers came into the warehouse by van. "Three other members of the heist team got into the cargo building on their own," said one investigator. "I feel someone inside opened the door for them." All six thieves spoke with Brooklyn accents...
...deliberately so. Some disgruntled deputies derided it as a "letter of intent," and a "mere memorandum." Without mentioning specifics, the Mota Pinto program called for revising agricultural credit, promoting competition, creating jobs, and keeping up a permanent "dialogue with the workers." In his speech before the Assembly, Mota Pinto spoke forcefully in defense of his program. Said he: "We must put discipline in work, better the conditions for private investment and make the public sector efficient...
While their wives went to programs for the women's division (Joan Kennedy spoke to them about improving one's self-image), the men attended seminars on such subjects as the potential deregulation of the industry (the owners don't want it) and the tariff problems of heavy carriers. Representatives from all 51 A.T.A. state chapters listened, debated (often heatedly) and took notes. "Our company feels this is a way of life," said Newton Graves Jr., a vice president of Yellow Freight System, one of the nation's largest common carriers. "We have 15 people...