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...reaching liberalization of world trade through President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act. Special Envoy Christian Herter and his 20-man delegation - who were dubbed "Onward Christian's Soldiers" by the press corps-aimed for an agreement whereby Europe and the U.S. would make big, equal, across-the-board percentage cuts on huge categories of goods. Nothing doing, retorted the Europeans, who pointed out that U.S. tariffs are generally higher than Europe's, while the highest U.S. tariffs cover far more goods (20% of all U.S. tariffs are over 30% v.1% of Europe...
...have upon the concrete educational experience of an important number of undergraduates--whether it will, in fact, lead to social evil within the Harvard community. The Association's representatives have not, so far, presented any cogent, rationally outlined arguments to this point. Barring the explicit adoption of an across-the-board laissez-faire policy of University recognition, perhaps the College authorities should hold the AAAA charter in abeyance until the club's representatives have clarified their position on this question...
...Chairman Roger Blough, the industry's blunderbuss leader in 1962, kept his head down. Instead of acting in too-obvious concert, the industry's leaders behaved as if they had only just learned of one another's existence by reading the newspapers. In contrast with across-the-board raises in 1962, Wheeling's price hikes were highly selective. About all the reaction in public that the Wheeling increase got from Kennedy was a statement that he still considered across-the-board price boosts inflationary, but "selected price adjustments up or down are not incompatible with...
Wheeling's new prices represent an across-the-board increase, Eckstein said, and not merely a "selected products" price increase, as some industry spokesmen have claimed. He pointed out that if the entire industry follows Wheeling's increase, the prices of more than half of all steel products will be affected...
...indeed Britain's first deficit budget since 1947, but instead of glittering, across-the-board tax cuts that Britons had expected, Maudling trimmed income taxes by a moderate $700 million, targeted his cut to benefit the lowest income families-an aim that could only draw praise from the opposition. To help offset the cost, he announced his intention of taxing the vast, largely untapped fortunes ($2.3 billion in 1962) that Britons lavish on gambling each year...