Word: followings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shipments of technology and spare parts to Iranian industry and further pare the already skeletal West German diplomatic mission in Tehran. Remarked a senior chancellery official in Bonn: "This should go a long way toward backing the U.S. even if our other West European allies do not necessarily follow." Britain is ready to join the West Germans in imposing trading sanctions and further reducing its embassy staff...
Consensus building sometimes takes years, but when urgent action is needed the government resorts to "administrative guidance." That is a sort of friendly persuasion by which the government officially "recommends" certain action, leaving the follow-through to industry itself. In 1978, for example, the Carter Administration strongly pressured Japan to cut its U.S.-bound color-television shipments. To prevent companies from engaging in a disruptive price war by rushing for shares of the smaller U.S. market, the Japanese government ordered the industry to reduce color-TV shipments to the U.S. by 50%. The administrative guidance was enforced by the industry...
...made plans to carry out, an order to kill him. Liddy remains unrepentant. He regrets only that so many others failed to keep their silence. Perhaps more than any of the Watergate characters, Liddy embodied the principles underlying the scandal that destroyed a President. Some excerpts from his book follow...
...playing games, John; it's just that I have to know how much you need to know. If you're the action officer, then you need to know it all. D'you follow...
...worry about them." I showed him my weapons and he shined his light on them, then looked up at me with a smile and said: "Shoot straight." I knew what he meant. Don't leave anyone alive as a witness. It was good advice and I intended to follow...