Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Associated Press-NBC News poll taken last week showed that the President's peacemaking role, while widely applauded, had not transformed his presidency. True, 44% of those questioned gave high approval to Carter's conduct of foreign policy, a rise of 9 points in one month. But 47% rated his handling of energy problems as poor-the most negative rating ever accorded Carter by the poll-and 41% had the same low estimate of his management of the economy. His overall approval was a lowly 29%, up only 1 point from last month...
...member of the audience might have trouble applying justified skepticism to The China Syndrome's central premise when everything else about the film runs so fast , rings so true...
These payments were supposedly designed to disguise the true extent of the dumping, which, according to U.S. Customs officials, was most intense during and after the mid-1970s recession. The kickbacks allegedly worked this way: manufacturers quoted a high official wholesale price but then made illicit payments to their U.S. importers that enabled them to undercut the retail price of American-made TVs by as much as $100. Customs officials and Government lawyers say that virtually all Japanese manufacturers except Sony are implicated...
...broad and so murky that in theory they could be aimed at leakers and the press. In practice, however, they are used only on spies. Part of the reason is the First Amendment. But prosecuting leaks also runs a different risk: confirming that the leaked information is true, and disclosing even more secrets at a trial. This dilemma has vexed the Government for years in conventional espionage cases, but it drew little public attention. That is, until the Government began trying to prosecute its intelligence officials...
Later this year the Lahaina Restoration Foundation will have almost totally rebuilt Carthaginian II (named for the fictional vessel in James Michener's Hawaii), which will be a true replica of a 19th century trader. One of the foundation's major enterprises is a marine research center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came...