Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will gather at Helsinki, including spokesmen for the Vatican and every European country except myopic, Maoist Albania. Everyone seemed to be groping for a phrase that would sum up the spectacle. Departing slightly from theatrical images, a European delegate murmured: "Helsinki will be a living Madame Tussaud's, the greatest show of living waxworks on earth...
...restrictions made it illegal for reporters to quote opposition speakers, refer by name to any political prisoners, including some 30 jailed opposition members of Parliament, publish anything "likely to denigrate the institutions of the Prime Minister or the President," or even mention that published material had been censored. In sum, the press was left free to publish government handouts...
...Well," ...he shifts in his seat, not really a grimace but almost. He answers without looking up, his eyes scanning the air for words or something. "You'll have to see the play, it's too complex to sum up in a sentence...
...worker support: the collapse of Portugal's economy, which the M.F.A. has thoroughly mismanaged. Unemployment is now estimated at 10% and is certain to rise. The rate of inflation could top 30% by year's end, and the trade deficit threatens to reach $2 billion-a staggering sum for a nation with a gross national product of only $13 billion...
...week Exxon executives conceded to the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations that between 1963 and 1971, an Italian affiliate had spent from $46 million to $49 million to gain such political favors as favorable treatment of refinery licenses, levies on gasoline and heating oil, and other tax legislation. That sum far exceeds the political payments revealed by other U.S. corporations such as Gulf, Northrop* and Mobil (which last week admitted making political contributions of $2 million in Italy between...