Word: spedding
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...cleanly on Watergate as they were last week on the President's tax problems. Of course, they cannot be. But a lesson lurks in the swift disposition of the case of Nixon's taxes. It was the White House's full and prompt cooperation with the tax investigators that sped the resolution of the affair...
...that was the point, it was well made. Houseman did not notice that the bogus release was typed rather than mimeographed, and he never checked the item with Kennedy's office. An embarrassed U.P.I, alerted its subscribers to kill the story 90 minutes after the first dispatch had sped over the wire...
...three motorcycles and about 15 foot patrols was clearing Newbury St., about a half-block from the rear entrance of the building, where protesters had gathered to face Ford more directly upon his departure. Smiling and waving, Ford passed the crowd assembled on the corner as his bronze LTD sped toward the Sheraton-Boston Hotel...
Administration economists had long been planning to lift the controls and they sped up their timetable because the dollar was gaining in value on world currency markets, threatening to make U.S. goods too expensive for foreign buyers. Partly because of the dollar's relative cheapness until now, the nation scored a surplus in its foreign trade in 1973. Last week the Commerce Department announced that the U.S. exported $1.68 billion more than it imported, the first annual surplus in three years...
...hear the Chinese tell it, the caper came right out of a spy novel. "It was the evening of Jan. 15 when the streets in the Chinese capital were emptying," reported the official New China News Agency. "A gray Soviet Volga car sped out of the Soviet embassy in China. Winding through streets and lanes, it left the city and raced toward the northeastern outskirts...