Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daily Mail, the department in 1976 "loaned" $11.5 million from the slush fund to Michigan Publisher John P. McGoff, who is co-owner with Eschel Rhoodie and Mulder of a large farm in the Transvaal, to finance a $26.3 million offer for the paper. Joe Allbritton, the Texan who owned the newspaper from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. this year, denies that McGoff ever approached him. McGoff, whose Panax Corp. publishing company acknowledges bidding for the Star before Allbritton bought it, has denounced the Daily Mail story about a South African loan as "utter nonsense...
...Texan who spent the summer studying there, I found your article on New York [Aug. 21] exhilarating. It touched me and, oddly, left me with a feeling of pride for a city that isn't, by birth, mine. That, perhaps, is New York's most seductive charm: in one way or another, it belongs to anyone who wishes to claim...
Carter, meanwhile, had been doing some phoning of his own and was startled by what he found. Of the 30 backbenchers with whom he talked, ten said their vote depended upon what Wright did. This persuaded Carter to endorse the Texan's new compromise...
Saudi Arabian planning makes Texan big think seem like small talk. The Saudis are currently spending $15 billion on the largest desalination program in the world?and seriously pondering a plan for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to provide fresh water for a country that has not a single permanent river. The estimated cost of that: $80 million per berg. They are putting up $14 billion for a project that will bring natural gas to the newly planned industrial cities of Yanbo on the Red Sea and Jubail on the Persian Gulf, which are costing $30 billion to build...
...Democratic Senators grumbling on the Senate floor and in the cloakrooms about Carter's foreign policy." Said another: "Hell, if we offered [the manifesto] to the whole Senate, we could have got 75 Senators." The widespread carping prompted Senate G.O.P. Leader Baker two months ago to appoint Texan Tower to head a six-Senator committee to draft a Republican policy statement. They produced a hard-line document that Baker toned down with the help of Republican liberals and moderates...