Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bonds "in banks which make renew, or extend" loans to the South African government. Yet Manufacturers Hanover continues to renew and extend such loans. Hugh Calkins, a member of the Harvard Corporation, has tried to wriggle out of this contradiction by claiming that "We don't mean our statement to mean that renewals can't be made...we will be satisfied if (the banks) work their way out of their loan situation in a responsible business-like way...in a reasonable time and in a reasonable...
...Trying to Right the Balance," [Oct. 9] contains an assertion that U.S.-based multinationals, including General Motors, harm the nation's balance of trade out of a desire to protect their foreign operations from undue competition from American-made products. I disagree and feel that this statement is unsupportable...
...newsmen that they had better get to the White House for an important announcement at 9. The callers gave no hint of what it would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation program ... It is now necessary...
...last week, in a posthumous statement published in the journal Nature, the late British Geologist James Archibald Douglas offered his solution to the Piltdown hoax. The culprit, said Douglas in a tape recording made only a few months before his death last February at age 93, was his predecessor as professor of geology and paleontology at Oxford University, William Johnson Sollas. The motive: Sollas wanted to destroy the reputation of a hated rival by tricking him into publicly accepting as authentic what would later be unmasked as an elaborate joke...
...suit, brought by a coalition that calls itself the Red Line Alert, charges the MBTA with violating three federal statutes regarding the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) the agency filed for the extension...