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Word: swaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lowest price, as ultimately damaging to the producing states. Anti-American rioting in Iran has made involvement with the U.S. seem even more unwise. Such oil ministers as Iraq's fiery Tayeh Abdul-Karim and the Emirates' Mani Said Utaiba argue that it is stupid to swap valuable and nonrenewable oil for increasingly inflated dollars that Washington might some day freeze anyway, as it has done in the case of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here They Come Again | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...could spend the next 20 years just keeping his $5 billion multinational growing in the tighteningly competitive auto market. He is busy now negotiating a deal with Renault to swap Swedish shares for French capital and front-wheel technology. But Gyllenhammar has a cause beyond cars. He is going through the world and warning that the industrial nations have a growing problem: "the mismatch between people and jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Ideas from a Matchmaker | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Preusser charged Harvard and Lesley with collusion, adding "when we went through the downzoning process there, there was definite cooperation between Lesley and Harvard. I'm sure they made some sort of swap...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Harvard Sells Property To Lesley for $375,000 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...topnotch salesman who bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken business for $2 million and in a stock-swap deal sold it for $21 million, Brown did not do as well in selling himself. He ducked the usual political chores like shaking hands at county courthouses and fish fries. "We have a computer that tells me which hands to shake," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's See Some Teeth | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...only swap involving the batting and home run title winners of the previous year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube World Series Time Quiz | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

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