Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a federal grand jury in Atlanta questioned Billy Carter last fall about Banker Bert Lance's tangled financial dealings, the President's brother announced blithely that on several occasions he had taken the Fifth Amendment. The statement inflamed suspicions that Brother Billy might be covering up some unsavory-or even illegal-money dealings between Lance, who resigned as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the fall of 1977 because of his questionable banking practices, and the Carter presidential campaign...
...percentage points above the prime rate. At the time of the last rate reduction on the construction loan, the prime rate, which banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, was 7%. Said Lance: "There were good and sufficient banking reasons for those decisions, and any implication or statement that they were not in that regard would be a misstatement...
...annually for 66,000 lbs. of the stuff, and Colombia provides about 80% of it. It is the fashionable drug among movie stars, pop singers and jet-setters. As Robert Sabbag wrote in Snow Blind, his hip account of the cocaine trade: "To snort cocaine is to make a statement. It is like flying to Paris for breakfast." Those who have been arrested for possessing it include Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richard, New York Rangers Forward Don Murdoch, TV Star Louise Lasser, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and one of the owners of Manhattan's top discotheque, Studio 54, where...
...steering committee of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) said in a statement last night that the group has "been saying all year that shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal don't work. Now the ACSR has admitted that. Will the Corporation draw the logical conclusion and divest...
...seaport at Kompong Som ruled out any possibility of resupplying the tattered Kampuchean fighters. The Chinese contented themselves with beefing up their own forces along the Vietnamese border and hurling insults, mainly at the Soviets for supporting the invasion. "An aggressor's day of ascendancy," proclaimed an enigmatic statement released in Peking, "is the beginning of his defeat...