Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned it into the largest computer manufacturer in the world before retiring in 1974 as chairman of the board. What especially pleased Brezhnev and the Soviets about the Watson nomination is the fact that he is a successful businessman with an excellent knowledge of the problems of international trade. The Soviets dearly want to increase their trade with the U.S., and they hope that the new ambassador will help...
...Army Air Force transports that carried goods across the Bering Sea from Alaska. With other business and labor leaders, academics and politicians, Watson was a member of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations that in 1977 urged cooperation with the Soviets on arms control, science, cultural affairs and trade...
...spell out that members will engage in distribution of drugs of a specified quantity and quality in order to remain members." By far the most popular drug sold by the Angels was methamphetamine (speed); investigators estimate that the club controlled up to 90% of northern California's methamphetamine trade. They indicate that the drugs were produced by the cyclists in five labs capable of turning out $160,000 worth of pills daily...
...Nicaragua's upper and middle classes. Within the FSLN, three main factions have emerged from the infighting. Of these, two make no apology for being unabashedly Marxist. But the third and largest group, known as the Terceristas (Insurrectionists), is composed of socialists, Roman Catholic liberals (including many priests), trade unionists and even a few businessmen...
...becoming "the biggest and most despicable human trafficker of the present age." The U.S. tends to agree. "This is a cynical and brutal policy," Vice President Walter Mondale told TIME last week. "They are just running, people out of the country." Hong Kong government officials say that the trade in human lives has replaced coal as Hanoi's principal source of gold and hard currency. According to some Hong Kong estimates, Hanoi could collect as much as $3 billion before its Chinese population is completely expelled...