Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contradictions," and he has a point. For 40 years, starting with the New Deal, policy aimed at having farmers restrict production and sell at high Government-supported prices. In 1973-74, Earl Butz tried a new tack: he lobbied through Congress the law under which farmers could no longer unload their crops on the Government, urged them to increase output by planting "fence to fence," and set target prices far below market quotes. He got away with it because rocketing export demand permitted farmers for a year or two to sell everything they could grow at prices that the Government...
...week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...
That correction is indicative of the frenzy with which corporations, banks and other holders of dollars are stampeding to unload them. The selling has driven the dollar down 19% against the German mark, 27% against the Japanese yen and 34% against the Swiss franc in the past year. Washington seems incapable of stopping the slump; even optimistic statements by the White House nowadays often have a perverse effect. Last week, for example, President Carter said at his news conference that congressional passage at long last of his battered energy legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar...
State authorities worry about air pollution, particularly the hydrocarbons that will escape when the tankers unload at Long Beach. The California Air Resources Board argues that pollution in the Los Angeles area is already higher than federal standards permit. Under the Federal Clean Air Act the board has ruled that Sohio can build only if the company pays for a tradeoff: it must locate an existing local industrial polluter and assume the cost for it to clean up its emissions even more than Sohio's oil will foul the air. The oil company has accepted the trade...
...terrified of the Democrats coming to power because of the possible cut-off of loans." In early 1976, Letelier managed to convince the Dutch government to cancel its $60 million loan to Chile. In addition he met with the heads of the dockworkers union and convinced them not to unload Chilean goods--not only in Holland but anywhere in the world. Shortly after this successful trip, Moffitt says, the Chilean press began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife then became subject to harassment--"They would call up Isabel Letelier at night...