Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last summer, a Labor Party M.P. asked British officials if they were aware that Pakistan was buying equipment suitable for building a gas centrifuge system. Eventually intelligence agents from several countries, including the U.S., pieced together the Pakistani buying spree and reached the conclusion that Islamabad was buying itself the bomb. Washington, which promptly cut off most of its aid to Pakistan, was caught by surprise: it had persuaded France last year not to sell a nuclear reprocessing plant to Pakistan for fear the country would use it to produce Plutonium for a bomb. It now turned out that Pakistan...
Would Tehran's avowedly anti-Western regime honor the contracts for providing modern new industries and services signed during the Shah's long buying spree? The first strong hint came last week, and it was not encouraging-especially for U.S. firms, which hold an estimated $10 billion in Iranian orders...
Spradley's plight seemed minor, however, compared with that of McLemore. Spradley told authorities that the last he remembers seeing his co-pilot was near the airplane during the Indians' shooting spree, "praying out loud...
Alan Greenspan, economic consultant to major corporations, is concerned because businessmen have lately gone on an ordering spree, in an effort to build up stockpiles of parts and materials for fear of shortages ahead. He fears that inventory accumulation could be strong until the recession becomes apparent in the autumn, and then businessmen would abruptly cut back on orders, plunging the economy into a deeper slump. Says Arthur Okun, senior fellow at Brookings: "Paradoxically, we may have too much business confidence...
Back in Kampala, whose downtown area was badly torn up in the spree of looting that followed Big Daddy's departure, life returned to a semblance of normality. Electric power and water were restored. The first issue of a new paper, the Uganda Times, was published, and government employees began going back to their desks. One of the new government's first jobs: collecting and burying the hundreds of bodies that littered the streets. Pledged to restore democratic freedoms, the provisional government announced that voting for local officials in the Kampala area would begin almost immediately-the first...