Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bank with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." Since Italy has minor trade dealings with Hanoi, the Administration...
...arrangement seems to satisfy everybody. Kaiser, which plans to continue building its Jeeps in 32 countries, will gain additional funds for that and its other worldwide construction and manufacturing operations. Renault will concentrate on Argentina, where Italy's Fiat has been pushing hard to replace
...short, most sex education tries to perpetuate by enlightened sweet reasonableness the same morality that was once enforceable by social or religious canon and parental fiat. It does not necessarily work. Family Life Professor Lester Allen Kirkendall of Oregon State, who has been working on sex education since 1928, decries the tendency of parents to look on sex education as "disaster insurance." The old threats of pregnancy, venereal disease and community disapproval no longer carry the weight they once did, according to Kirkendall. "Many parents still think we can revitalize these threats," he says, "but the kids...
...regardless of Meany's stance, the measure that Johnson sent to Congress has a good chance of enactment. Yet his proposal was only another Band-Aid for another crisis. A strike by 137,000 members of six shop-craft unions has already been delayed three times by Government fiat,* and the wage dispute has been picked over by two separate mediation panels. Johnson's latest formula would deep-freeze the deadlock for another 90 days, while a new five-man mediation board sought a settlement. If there were no voluntary agreement by the end of that period...
...school, called the International Executive Training Center and bankrolled by 39 U.S. and European corporations, graduated its first class. It was a cosmopolitan group, made up of 17 high-level management men (average age: 42) from 14 companies in ten different countries. Among them: Chrysler International's controller, Fiat's man in Cairo, the assistant to the president of Spain's Barreiros Diesel, officials from France's Credit Lyonnais, Britain's Rolls-Royce, the U.S.'s IBM and Sweden's Saab...