Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Englander who resigned as president of a successful offshore-oil-drilling business because he thought that organized agriculture is the new frontier of business. "The day when agriculture is called upon to save the dollar is already here," he says. "Just as Japan may be able to make barbed wire, nails and transistors more cheaply than we can, the U.S. can produce broilers and beef more cheaply and ship them all over the world." Thus far, Stratford's three basic operational areas are cattle, chickens and potted plants, and Gow organizes each division down to the last moo, cluck...
...ANGELES--Yesterday's revelation in the Pentagon Papers trial--that John Mitchell, while attorney general, illegally put wire taps on the telephones of ten White House aides and two New York Times reporters--is not amusing. But recent days have provided some lighter moments in the long trial...
...scars now remain in Kalkilya of that blistering June day in 1967 when Israel almost wiped it off the map. The old frontier is a rusting jumble of barbed wire and garbage, and the village has the same sleepy, slightly disheveled air that it had before. Men wearing the keffiyeh, the traditional black and white checkered headdress, sit around in circles drinking muddy Turkish coffee and playing shesh-besh (backgammon). The muezzin of the large Moslem mosque snoozes on a straw mat, waking periodically to give the wailing call to prayer...
...want to alienate Hanoi. On the other hand, they do not want to damage their improving relations with the U.S. by encouraging the North Vietnamese. It is a delicate diplomatic balancing act that could easily collapse, but for the moment all parties were still teetering on the high wire...
...divestiture was only half the strategy. PALC demanded that it be accompanied by a public statement explaining the moral considerations that had guided the move. Picture the situation: President Bok calls a press conference, which all the heavy papers and wire services attend because Harvard is so important, then Bok denounces Gulf, and announces that Harvard is selling all its shares. If the Hotelworkers divested their stock, the story would have had back page value, but Harvard's prestige gives the move added impetus--enough to catapault it into the national spotlight. Congress begins to take note of the situation...