Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rafshoon as a staffer in an effort to reverse the decline in the President's prestige. A sharp appraiser of people and their talents, she also urged the shift of Presidential Aide Tim Kraft from scheduling appointments to advising on political matters. Says Kraft: "Jimmy places the greatest stock in her judgments of people. Her word is gospel." Adds Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Her political judgment is very good. She senses repercussions, impact, the way things come across, very well." With characteristic candor, Powell admits to a reservation: "We respect her judgment, but we don't always agree...
...divorce case, meanwhile, focused on whether Talmadge or his wife was entitled to $756,000 from a land deal. According to his deposition, the Senator in 1967 bought a one-eighth share in Terminal Facilities, a land syndicate, and placed the stock in his wife's name. She now claims that it was an outright gift and that she paid capital gains tax on the profits when the shares were sold in 1972. But he insists that the stock was only hers to hold in trust, even though in an answer to one of Betty's lawyer...
...find at 15,000 ft. in a Baltimore Canyon test site that it shares with several partners, including Getty Oil, Sun Oil and Allied Chemical. The company stressed that no firm conclusions could be drawn from its samples, but the mere hint of a strike sent Texaco's stock up 2½ points...
Across the Atlantic, a stock market flurry was touched off in London by reports that British Petroleum had discovered a potentially huge field. It is in a lightly explored region 30 miles west of the Shetland Islands, which are off the Scottish coast and far distant from Brit" ain's already rich North Sea fields. BP, which shares the site with Chevron, Imperial Chemical Industries and the British National Oil Corp., confirmed that it had hit oil but reported that it did not know how much...
...This acquisition just really adds to our stock," Zeckhouser said, adding that the University would like to be able to provide housing for people who come to work or study at Harvard...