Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had tried in the children's classroom. He de-emphasized rhyme and meter, encouraged repetition of words and phrases ("a slight artificiality to teach them to put things together in a new way," says Koch). He always suggested themes, like growing old or silence or the color green. Assisted by Kate Farrell, a young poet and student at Columbia, Koch had each of the dictated poems transcribed. Each of the 16 sessions ended with Koch reading aloud and praising the day's work...
...unofficially financed film from the Ivory Coast called Black and White, in Color, by the maker of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, won as Best Foreign Film, over the gross and grossly overrated but commercially successful Seven Beauties. The harshly critical Harlan County, U.S.A. won as Best Documentary. Things were getting so radical that even a dyed-in-the-wool, if not so endowed in the head, liberal like Warren Beatty (McGovern benefits in '72, and all that) sauntered on and suggested that to add some political balance he should put in a good word "for Goldwater and Reagan...
...could not be more awkward for the President. In early May, he will go to a seven-nation economic summit in London to argue, among other things, for free trade and lower tariff barriers. He must make a decision on shoe tariffs by April 9, and on sugar and color-TV imports one to two weeks after the summit. If the President acts to cut imports sharply, his free-trade evangelism in London will seem hollow or even hypocritical. If he ignores the protectionist pressures, his summit partners will be pleased, but Carter will face domestic protest-and a showdown...
...protectionist case is formidable. Since 1968, foreign shoes have increased their share of the U.S. market from 22% to 46%. During the same period, 300 domestic shoe factories have closed, wiping out 70,000 jobs. Imported color-TV sets, mostly from Japan, Taiwan and Korea, grabbed 42% of the $2 billion American market last year, a huge increase from 18% only the year before. The American sugar industry, undersold by foreign competitors, faces similar troubles...
Tariffs and Quotas. The ITC wants a quota of 265 million pairs-equal to 1974 imports-on the number of shoes that can come in under the present 10% tariff, and quadrupling the tariff to 40% on any additional imports. It would raise tariffs on color TVs from 5% now to 25% for the next two years, then drop them back to 20% for an additional two years. The commission further would cut the quota on sugar, now 7 million tons, to a maximum of 4.4 million tons a year. Labor leaders, businessmen and politicians from regions hurt by imports...