Word: states
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Washington was displeased with Kim's expulsion and even more concerned about the consequent turmoil, which could only damage the reliability of a Far Eastern ally that has 39,000 U.S. troops stationed on its soil. Even before the rioting, the State Department had criticized what it called "a definite retrogression of human rights in South Korea" and showed its disapproval by recalling Ambassador William Gleysteen for "consultations." At week's end, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, accompanied by Gleysteen, went ahead with a long scheduled visit to Seoul. Even though he announced that the U.S. was withdrawing...
That is, one could buy $10,000 worth of stock with just $1,000. Many thousands did, lured into the market by boosters like John J. Raskob, the stenographer turned entrepreneur who built the Empire State Building. "Everyone ought to be rich," he wrote in an exuberant Ladies' Home Journal article; anyone who could invest $15 a month, he declared, could eventually reap a profit of $80,000. A Harvard behavioral psychologist named John Watson even found therapeutic value in speculation. "Sex has become so free and abundant," he theorized, "that it no longer provides the thrill it once...
Bokassa reportedly also gave state gifts to Giscard's brother, two of the President's cousins, a top adviser and a pair of Cabinet ministers. Tart and punful as always, the Duck dubbed the affair "Giscarat...
Investigative reporting in France is sharply restricted. Television stations are state-owned, and the national news service, Agence France Presse, is headed by a political ally of Giscard. Newspapers are vulnerable too, some because they have received government-guaranteed loans, others because they need the advertising directed their way by the state-controlled publicity conglomerate, Havas...
Radioactive waste and the need for a place to dump it. Thus when Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray early this month shut down her state's Hanford dump, one of the three- such sites available to U.S. producers of low-level radioactive wastes, there was immediate concern in the nuclear medicine departments of hospitals and research centers across the U.S. Some nuclear power plants can use on-site storage areas for radioactive wastes. But hospitals and universities with limited storage capacity rely on regular pickups by private carters. For them, a wide array of vital tests...