Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acting as the Administration's traffic controller is exactly what Wexler was expected to do when she was brought into the White House nine months ago as the top-ranking woman and one of eight presidential assistants. With the Administration's popularity slipping and its programs bogged down in Congress, the relaxed Southern style of Carter's closest aides needed a strong dose of discipline and management. These were talents Wexler had demonstrated amply at the Commerce Department, where she had been a deputy under secretary, and in two decades as a political organizer. She worked...
...assumed to have. That led the analysts to look for other clues, using intercepted communications between North Korean units, satellite photographs and information from South Korean spies. Says Hart: "The intelligence effort is like a criminal case in which you start out by thinking that you have a minor traffic violation and end up with Mafia involvement...
...million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there was near hysteria in spots as nuns and urbanites alike jostled to get a glimpse of the Polish-born visitor. Business and traffic came to a standstill...
...Bensinger: "Our efforts are so uphill that it is more than a challenge. The public attitude must change about drugs so the profitability for traffickers will decrease." On this point, Colombian President Turbay agrees: "Colombians are not corrupting Americans. You are corrupting us. If you abandon illegal drugs, the traffic will disappear...
...enfeebled Britain. A two-week-old walkout by 75,000 truck drivers severely impeded shipments of food, medicine, raw materials and other essential commodities, forcing layoffs of as many as 150,000 workers from idle factories and producing shortages of such staples as sugar, salt, flour and butter. Massive traffic jams clogged the highways as commuters switched to cars in the face of walkouts by locomotive engineers. Worse was to come, as 1.5 million public service workers threatened a 24-hour walkout this week...