Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traffic, which violates Mexican but not U.S. law, benefits stores in other Texas cities too. Mexicans account for an estimated 20% of all retail sales in San Antonio. In Houston, the Sakowitz department store does 10% of its business with Mexicans. Says Maurice Aresty, executive vice president of Houston's Retail Merchants Association: "They buy shoes, furs and all the jewelry they can carry back...
...Shops and schools were reopening, and office workers were returning to their jobs. Chieftain tanks and Russian-built armored cars, which had been in evidence everywhere, were now out of sight. Soldiers ventured into restaurants and parked their automatic weapons in corners as they ate. Locked in a monumental traffic jam, a Western diplomat sighed: "Things are back to normal in Tehran...
Firestone has lived this year with slumping profits, a falling stock price and bad publicity over alleged defects in its 500-series radial tires. Last week it signed a pact with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promising to recall and replace up to 7.5 million of the radials, which are no longer being manufactured. After tax write-offs, the company expects the recall to cost $135 million, or more than its $110 million profit last year...
...Jordan's self-deprecation, however, the traffic in and out of his office in the White House's West Wing testifies to the growing range of his involvements. When Alfred Kahn is being coaxed away from the Civil Aeronautics Board to head the Administration's anti-inflation effort, that office is Kahn's last stop before visiting Carter. Another day, a visitor finds Jordan closeted with Charles Kirbo, the President's Atlanta-based confidant and troubleshooter, and Jay Solomon, head of the troubled General Services Administration. Yet another day, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski shows...
...seems hard to believe, but a Ralph Nader lieutenant now bears the chief responsibility for U.S. auto safety as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As if that were not enough, the consumerist who once sued the Agriculture Department over its beef grading and food-stamp rules is now Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, overseeing the same grading of meat and food-stamp programs...