Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterness of the Civil War had been transformed, by memory and new fortunes, into an event which, in retrospect, conferred virtue and glory upon all (Union) participants. At the Palmer House dinner, the menu, appropriately glorious, featured oysters, champagne, prairie chicken, buffalo, shrimp salad, hardtack and cigars. At 10:45 the speeches began. General U.S. Grant, the guest of honor, had just returned from a world tour. He expressed a slightly be fuddled surprise at being called upon to speak, and declared that Americans "are beginning to be regarded a little by other powers as we, in our vanity, have...
Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will Anwar Sadat's skillful Washington envoy Ashraf Ghorbal. Spies are back, and the Carter Administration will not be using the word love quite so often or in quite the same...
Young said Carter could help the Cambodians by organizing an international peacekeeping force or by imposing economic sanctions against the Soviet Union to pressure Vietnam indirectly...
...fear of strikes every three years when the union contract came up for renewal that led steel customers to buy still more imports to hedge their supplies. But when steel imports rose from a 13.4% share of the domestic market in 1975 to 17.7% in 1977, the Carter Administration imposed minimum or "trigger" prices for imports based on a complex formula. Imports have fallen off to 14% in this year's first nine months, and the trigger price was reduced 1% to $347.55 a ton for the third quarter. But with the yen weakening almost 23% against the dollar...
There are some moves that the Soviet Union's World Champion Chessmaster Anatoly Karpov, 28, would probably prefer no one kept track of, including his wedding five months ago to fetching Irina Kuimova, 25. Certainly TASS chose not to. Announcing the birth in Moscow of a son to the Karpovs, the newspaper recalled only that the couple had been married "this year...