Word: across-the-board
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...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the single permanent machinery for lowering barriers and expanding trade. GATT carries the hopes of industrial nations for freer trade, but is by no means ignoring less developed ones. In the continuing "Kennedy Round" of negotiations, GATT ministers aim for 50% across-the-board tariff cuts that would be extended to underdeveloped countries on a nonreciprocal basis...
...INCOME TAX. Though he once condemned the graduated income tax and suggested instead an across-the-board tax of, say, 10%, he has changed his stand somewhat. "I don't like the progressive features of the income tax," but "we cannot do away with progressive features entirely...
Disparities Despair. Fundamental to the lack of progress so far is that the U.S. Congress passed the Trade Expansion Act that inspired the Geneva talks for the express purpose of breaking down Common Market trade barriers to expand U.S. exports. The U.S. thus wants to negotiate a flat across-the-board percentage cut on 5,000 items in international trade. The Six, understandably, want to open up world markets for their own industry and farmers. Since their tariff walls are already generally lower than the U.S.'s, they reject a flat cut that would only perpetuate the disparities, prefer...
...problem was solved two years ago by offering across-the-board loans to 'Cliffies on scholarship, but this year the committee on admissions did not feel that the loans should be increased...
...pressing for a nationwide across-the-board "crash program" for education in Germany today. German students are presently being taught by pre-1933 standards. "Automation requires intellectual mobility," Erler said, and unless Germany immediately reforms its educational system, it will not be able to compete in "material production or intellectual life" in the coming generation...