Word: braked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brake the drive toward ever greater protection, the Geneva-based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade last week issued a long-awaited study on ways to help lift trade barriers. The 60-page report was put together by a group of seven public and private officials who included Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Pehr Gyllenhammar, chairman of Volvo. If global commerce were allowed to flow freely, they argue, the world as a whole could regain the vigor that it showed from 1950 to 1973, an era the report describes as "the most dynamic single generation of widespread...
...OPEC oil producer, touched off the cartel's current troubles last October by cutting the price of its North Sea crude by $1.50 per bbl., to $28.50. Britain quickly followed Norway, which inspired OPEC member Nigeria to undercut both competitors and sell its oil for $28. OPEC tried to brake the price slide in October by reducing the output quota for its members from 17.5 million bbl. a day to 16 million in hopes that lower supply would mean higher prices. At the time, the group predicted confidently that as soon as oil refiners began building their stockpiles for winter...
Vieturn to detente? A nuclear freeze? Some kind of brake on the arms race? Hardly. The latest love in between? Washington and Moscow has about the same chance of breaking into open arms control as did the four years of deep freeze that characterized relations during the first term of the Reagan Administration: nil. All the soothing words enunciated in last week's rush to rapprochement cannot obfuscate the immense underlying obstacles to any meaningful agreement given the current cast of characters in the White House...
...election, brought together about 30 Nicaraguan political parties, social and labor organizations, from conservative to extreme left. But those attending the talks have only a consulting role. National Directorate Member Carlos Núñez Téllez declares that giving authority to the group would constitute "putting a brake on the powers of the state." -By George Russell. Reported by June Erlick and Janice C. Simpson/Managua
...roadblocks and rivalries brake Europe in the high-technology field...