Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Dynamics, General Motors, IBM, ITT, Lockheed, United Air Lines, U.S. Steel, Xerox and ten other major companies. A 51% interest in all these firms could be bought for some $47 billion, and the 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will accumulate much more surplus capital than that by the end of this year...
Camping equipment is one of the few, if not the only good thing that ever came out of America's armed forces. Although the stuff is getting scarce, an easy way to save money is to go army surplus. The finest pants available are still those army wind pants developed in some Army hinterland testing center. If you plan to hit the frequently wet northeast slopes, then the best bet for boots, is still the army mouse boot--Korean vintage--if you can still find a pair. Some itchy wool thermal underwear and a couple of wool sweaters still...
Even the food aid programs the United States has implemented in the past have not done a particularly good job of feeding starving people. One of Butz's boasts at the conference was that "last year when there was no grain surplus we programmed $67 million worth of food under Public Law 480." What Butz did not mention was that 43 per cent of the 1974 deliveries under P.L. 480--otherwise known somewhat euphemistically as the Food for Peace program--went to only two countries, South Vietnam and Cambodia, where much of the money was used for military purposes...
...surplus estimate was based on lower operation costs than income from rooming contracts and also the suitability of the air-conditioned hall for paid use during the summer, Hale Champion, vice president for financial affairs, said yesterday...
...cost overrun on the construction of Canaday Hall will absorb the $70,000 estimated surplus from the operation of the dormitory this school year, administration officials said yesterday...