Word: cites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Nov. 29 review of political campaign contributions, you cite three examples of quid pro quo: 1) dairy farmers' self-interested donations linked to an increase in milk-support prices; 2) a bribery attempt to dismiss fraud charges; and 3) my proposed 1968 donation (never given) to Hubert Humphrey if he could promise an early end to the war in Viet...
...told stories of "runaway" plants that backed up Meany's contentions. These included RCA's TV plant that moved from Memphis to Taiwan, as well as Bendix of York, Pa., and Kollsmann Industries' Wisconsin TV-tuner operation, both of which relocated in Mexico. AFL-CIO economists cite Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing that the number of U.S. workers that theoretically would be required to produce all goods imported into the U.S. has increased by at least 700,000 (to 2.5 million) since 1966. The implication is that if imports were held down domestic employment would jump...
...simply out of "young-people-today" defensiveness that I cite the conclusion to Anatole Broyard's review in the New York Times of Anais Nin's fourth diary. However undeveloped and inadvertant his point may have been, it gets at the heart of what there is to be said about Anais Nin. "It seems that the diaries are enjoying a tremendous vogue among the young people today. It is a good thing, for Miss Nin is certainly an improvement over The Prophet, Love Story and The Greening of America." How much of an improvement, he cannot bring himself...
...deep into irrationality as to be able to explode into violence for the sake of revenge or in the hope of escape. According to their depiction of him, he was not merely a man of extremes but one possessed and perverted by absolutes. To substantiate their charge, they cite Jackson's records as a criminal and as a con. The authorities note that he was a three-time loser and accumulated 45 charges against himself while he was an inmate--including the charge of murder...
...Essay on population [Sept. 13] Otto Friedrich's optimism would be more credible if he could cite any advantages in having more people on the face of the earth, or in the U.S. What river would be purer? What slum would be more livable? What crime statistics would decline? How would life become more meaningful...