Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their prices at home too. As more American goods flood Europe, Triffin hears the cries rising for protectionism. Americans often overlook the fact that the U.S. enjoyed a $7 billion surplus in trade with Western Europe last year. Because the dollar has become grossly undervalued, many American goods are "cheap" in world markets, and the U.S. is often looked upon abroad with the same suspicion that Japan is viewed...
...Front recall all too readily Hitler's anti-semitism, his genocide of the 'inferior' Slavic population, and his plans for a Greater Germany. The Front's plans for the state control of capitalist industry are cruelly reminiscent of the German state machine which provided concentration camps of cheap labor to a regulated German industry...
When the miners are working, they make about $55 a day. Living is cheap, by urban standards, in Cabin Creek: a three-bedroom house rents for no more than $185 a month. But wildcat strikes are frequent-District 7 walked out for ten weeks last summer over a reduction in health benefits-and miners generally save little of their earnings. "Sometimes you're high on the hog, and sometimes you ain't got nothing," says Jerold Hamrick...
...dedicated schusser, he was inspired by an American study showing that 80% of his fellow skiers also play tennis. So he plans to spend $1.3 million to get Rossignol racquets into production. The racquets will be a molded mix of metal and plastic, and they will not be cheap: in the U.S., where they will arrive in 1980, they will cost $50 to $70. Most important, they will say ROSSIGNOL-in bold letters...
...Uihlein family (pronounced Ee-line), which controls 75% of the stock, is squabbling over methods to recoup. Chairman Daniel McKeithan Jr., an Uihlein in-law before his divorce in 1974, has brought in some outside executives and is seeking a new advertising agency to change the company's cheap-beer image. Schlitz is also thought by some to be for sale; merger talks with cigarette-making R.J. Reynolds Industries (Winston, Salem, Camel) broke off three weeks...