Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Book by SHERMAN YELLEN...
...several multimillion-dollar projects under way there. In January the Department of Justice sued Bechtel in a test case, asking that it be enjoined from obeying the boycott. The charge: by refusing to give work to blacklisted U.S. firms, the engineering company was restricting competition and thus violating the Sherman Act, the basic U.S. antitrust...
...response, Bechtel admitted it is indeed complying with the boycott but denied it is restraining competition because the goods or services of blacklisted firms would not be allowed into Arab countries anyway. In addition, Bechtel contends that the Justice Department is seeking to broaden illegally the Sherman Act to include foreign or political boycotts, as well as domestic restraints of trade. Most compellingly, the company argues that the Government itself is complying with the boycott. Specifically, Bechtel said several U.S. agencies, most notably the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey, when working in Arab countries, have "engaged...
Representatives of several minority organizations, including the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Committee to Defend Sherman Holcombe, addressed the crowd, which at times more resembled that of an Esplanade concert than a controversial rally...
...will find Yudie universal--sweet, a little shy, proud, opiniated, talkative. Although she's less obsessed with her Jewishness and much more self-reliant than most women of her background (she has been single and self-supporting for fifty years), her conversation plows with the delicate determination of a Sherman tank to the inevitable topics: food, family, marriage, and money. "Other people take pills when they get nervous, but I eat. All I need is a little piece of fruit...