Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ample opportunities, of a sort, do await ruddy-faced networkers. There are intern parties. There are bars. But best of all, there are free Congressional receptions where trade associations lavish huge sums of money to line up prospective allies...
Sometimes the Soviets have insisted on linking the various negotiations: no INF deal without a strategic offense-defense trade-off. At other times they have appeared willing not to link the issues, letting Reagan have an agreement and a summit without his having to make any concessions on SDI. Their current position is ambiguous -- and therefore flexible. Currently they are proposing an "INF-plus" summit. The plus would be a "framework agreement" on START and SDI -- not a full treaty, but an outline of its main provisions, notably including testing limits...
Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style...
Even in the computer industry, which is known for its hype and hullabaloo, the trade show that Digital Equipment Corp. opened in Boston last week is a happening. It is the largest and most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center...
...Arroyo's congressional outbursts sealed his fate, he provided a dramatic encore in private Malacanang sessions. Palace insiders report that the President witnessed a series of intense backroom shouting matches between Arroyo and Trade and Industry Secretary Jose Concepcion, whose twin brother Raul was among the businessmen the Executive Secretary had accused of treason. As other Cabinet members joined in the melee, a furious Aquino said, "Don't you people have anything else to do except fight and quarrel with each other?" To the officials present she said, "I want all your resignations right now." She then called the emergency...