Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, U.S. manufacturers claim they could compete head to head with Japanese rivals if the foreigners stopped selling below cost. The U.S. chipmakers are somewhat optimistic about the new trade pact, under which the Department of Commerce is setting so-called fair market values for each Japanese company's chip exports to the U.S. To arrive at the fair market value, which is the minimum price at which the manufacturer is allowed to sell the semiconductor, the department tallies up an individual Japanese ( chipmaker's costs in making each product and adds a profit of 8%. The Government...
...secret of his mountaineering successes is that he travels light, as he might to climb an Alpine peak. The legendary pinnacles are, to him, small ascents stacked one on top of another. He scales the earth's greatest heights by what he calls "fair means," avoiding the rope networks, high-mountain camps and bottled air that were part of the historic eight-thousander sieges, which frequently involved ten or more climbers supported by dozens of Sherpas. The minimalist technique has attracted thousands of imitators. Says Swiss Mountain Guide Erhard Loretan, 27, who, with his countryman Jean Troillet, 38, raced...
...President went more than halfway to meet the Soviets at Reykjavik. The U.S. was prepared to take substantial risks to reach an agreement -- and still the Soviets insisted on their terms. In the final analysis, the Soviets proved that they're not interested in fair and equitable reductions. They're interested only in killing SDI. But SDI is not a bargaining chip. It shouldn't be. I don't believe the Soviets are serious about reducing their nuclear arsenal. We ought to get as heavy a cut in offensive forces as possible. That doesn't preclude us from defending ourselves...
...regulated, but private utilities--natural gas, electricity, telephones, auto liability insurance--rental housing is regulated in the general public interest to realize the maximum public good. The good is seen as the balance between residents' need for safe, sanitary, affordable rental housing and property owner's right to a fair operating income which affords the incentive and the means to provide rental units in a city where approximately 70 percent of households rent, where 40 percent of all households are rent-controlled (60 percent of all rental units are controlled), and where the rental vacancy rate is rarely greater than...
...income or profit. A change in rent board policy toward adjusting rents on a building by building basis rather than groups or classes of building would address many of the present inequities including the "hardship" cases. This change in policy would require a reappraisal of the "presumption of fairness" in 1967 rents. After moving to an "expenses plus fair income" accounting, a few properties would require sharp adjustments to be within guidlines...