Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steel, textiles, shoes, TV sets and dozens of other items. At the end of September, Zenith Radio Corp., the largest U.S. maker of TV sets, announced that it would lay off 5,600 American employees within the next year, because of competition from imports, and transfer much of its color-set production to Taiwan and Mexico. Responding to complaints from U.S. steelmakers, the Treasury Department accused five Japanese firms of "dumping" steel plate-that is, selling the product below cost in the U.S. The companies must post $50 million in bonds to cover the cost of penalty duties that might...
...Administration has negotiated an QMA limiting imports of Japanese color-TV sets to 41% of their 1976 level (a restriction that obviously has not stopped Zenith from concluding that it will benefit by becoming a foreign manufacturer). Another OMA limits imports of shoes from Korea and Taiwan to 25% and 20% respectively. The Government is now under heavy pressure to negotiate an OMA in steel. One reason: privately owned U.S. companies have to compete with foreign mills that are either government-owned or heavily subsidized...
...months since their arrival on Mars snapping pictures of the Red Planet. The latest batch includes the best and most revealing shots yet. Among the pictures released by NASA: a photomosaic of the planet's north pole, showing a concentric pattern of striations in the ice cap; a color snapshot showing newly formed frost on the ground near the feet of the dust-covered Viking 2 lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot...
...draw any more." Last week Capp disclosed that he will have no successor. Said he: "I've tried one or two people, and it was clear that there would be an awful change." His last weekday strip will appear in newspapers on Nov. 5; his last Sunday color sequence -featuring that peerless detective, Fearless Fosdick-will be published...
...flow of color...