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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been allowed to bathe or change their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point. Said Carter: "This is a reprehensible thing, a disgrace to every person who believes in civilization or decency." At the State Department, officials issued a statement demanding that Iran permit a || neutral observer to check on the hostages. Hodding Carter, the dels partment's spokesman, told reI porters: "All the hostages have not been seen, and we have no way of knowing the condition of those people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Just to make an official statement to boycott would be pointless because we weren't sending anyone anyway," Yvonne S. Turner '81, House Committee chairman, said yesterday...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: More Boycott Votes Strengthen Movement to Repudiate CRR | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

...exception of a couple of entrances, the Loeb production does--then the problem evaporates. This approach loses some of the subtlety of the play-about-actors, but then, a George Kaufman comedy hardly demands subtle treatment. Modest ambitions save the Loeb's Royal Family from becoming a grandiose statement about "the theatre" and salvage an evening's entertainment out of the alluring labyrinth of mirrors...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest was owed, but that the U.S.'s freezing of its assets had prevented the transfer. Asserted an official bank statement released in London (before Banisadr contradicted it): "There is no intention on the part of the Iranian government not to meet its international financial obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Chase responded that the Iranian statement was not correct. It and the six other U.S. banks in the syndicate voted, over the protest of the four non-U.S. banks involved, to declare the default. The U.S. banks could use the Iranian assets frozen a week earlier to offset their own $300 million share of the loan, but the non-U.S. banks (two Swiss, one British and one Canadian) had no such recourse. Their only options were either to activate a so-called cross default clause and foreclose on the Iranian government in court for the remaining $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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