Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev talks kill the U.N. summit conference; they also involved Khrushchev in a display of belligerence that went far beyond his usual pro forma reminders of Russian military power. The communiqué itself was disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling, Peking calculatedly added to the rustle of tensions by moving MIG-17 jet fighters into several previously unused airfields along the South China coast, one of them only 22 minutes' flying time from Taipei...
...year to establish courses in foreign languages not ordinarily taught in the U.S., and short-term institutes for the study of language-teaching methods, with stipends for students who attend...
...allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe, the biggest market for U.S. exports. The way to compete is to establish plants in the common market area. Says Vice President William H. Mathers of Yale & Towne, which is planning to expand operations in the common market area: "When, the tariff provisions get into full swing, you aren't going to see anything from this country over there...
...firms will be able to gain equal access to all common market countries by establishing themselves in any one. While wages and other production costs now vary among common market countries, European economists expect them eventually to level out-as they have already started to in the European coal and steel nations. In view of this, smart companies are already picking plant sites on the basis of the best, not the cheapest, labor. Chicago's Outboard Marine, for example, decided to establish a plant in Bruges, Belgium, where wages are now relatively high, because it found that Belgians work...
...under lower tariffs, thus gain access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There are dangers in waiting. Once producers in other countries are established, it may be extremely difficult to establish a competitive source of production...