Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential casino owner certain to be the subject of scrutiny is Morris Shenker, who put up $10 million to buy the President Motor Inn on the Boardwalk. Formerly one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers, he is part owner of the Dunes Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City...
...leaders moved toward specific solutions for individual difficulties. In essence, each participant would attempt to correct problems that are hurting trading partners and retarding recovery. As one Italian diplomat quipped: "It's a bit like being sent home by the teacher with a homework assignment in your weakest subject...
...first major response to Russia's sentencing of dissidents, Jimmy Carter canceled a $6.8 million sale of an advanced Sperry Rand computer to Tass, the official Soviet news agency. At the same time, he said that he was making all U.S. exports of oil technology to the Soviets subject to Government license. That was a clear warning that within the next few weeks he might ban the $144 million sale to Russia by Dresser Industries of a plant to produce advanced oil-drilling equipment...
...third puzzling revelation of the week, Birmingham detectives disclosed that they had also questioned about the bombing two former Klan members: Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., 33, and Eugene Thomas, 54, who served ten years in prison for their part in the Liuzzo killing. They too wanted to switch the subject, to the Liuzzo shooting. For the first time, they claimed that Rowe killed the woman. Rowe has admitted being present at the murder, but insists that he only pretended to shoot a pistol at her, while Wil kins fired the fatal shot. But Wilkins and Thomas waited for twelve years...
...held later this year. At the same time, SWAPO has agreed that its armed forces will cease "all hostile acts." The agreement fails to resolve the issue of Walvis Bay, the deepwater harbor in Namibia that South Africa has been anxious to keep. Presumably, it will be the subject of further negotiations...