Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's key provisions were it not for the support of Republican Representatives Ed Derwinski and Tom Corcoran of Illinois and James Leach of Iowa. In the House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York and other Republicans have defended the Administration's free-trade policies against the Democrats' more protectionist attitudes...
...vintage C-46s, haul television sets, machinery and other U.S.-manufactured goods to the Caribbean and Latin America, returning with clothing, fresh flowers and food. In Coral Gables alone, 80 international firms have opened offices. Exxon, Du Pont and General Electric have their Latin American headquarters there. International trade now accounts for $4 billion in state income and has created 167,000 jobs, some of which have been filled by other Latin American nationals who have been drawn to the booming area...
Lashman did not have any complaints against Tsongas. "It is not a question of criticism, but a question of priorities. If you have a man already, why trade him in for a guy with no clout," he said yesterday...
...sense, it does, for if a family no longer earns its money in questionable ways, the public gift does not have quite the same self-serving legitimating impact. But while the Cabots may now be hundreds of years removed from the wealth they earned in the slave trade, the Engelhard family South African connection lives on, albeit without Charles...
...McCabe and Mrs. Miller undermines the modern mythification of the American past, The Long Goodbye (1973) exposes the improbability of a more contemporary American hero: the private eye, as created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is an anachronism. His stocks in trade--intelligence, independence and integrity--are pitifully inadequate weapons with which to confront modern, large-scale, organized corruption...