Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject of the tariff on shoes [March 28]: I buy Italian street and dress shoes and German hiking shoes because they fit and are comfortable. I find that most American shoes make my feet hurt, and they appear to be getting more and more uncomfortable as the years go by. As a matter of fact, we need tariffs on meat and grain as well as sugar, or I, as a farmer, won't be able to afford any shoes...
...another nation to retaliate so that any gain is canceled out. Spain imports three times as much from the U.S. as it exports. If its shoe sales to the U.S. are seriously curtailed, it can buy elsewhere-hurting American export industries. Trade restrictions ensure the survival of the least fit: businesses that cannot compete on their own in the world economy. This kind of coddling of inefficiency leads eventually to economic stagnation. In sum, protectionism is often a matter of robbing a productive Peter to pay a nonproductive Paul...
...twice has finished second, Mexico's Mario Cuevas and Toronto's Jerome Drayton (2:10.08 lifetime best). But the excitement of the Boston Marathon is in part due to the unpredictability of the finish: dark horse runners often manage to upset the favorites (Rodgers, Cusack and Fultz all fit into that category) so it's best to be prepared for the unexpected...
...Parker is not worried about the short period together. "They fit together pretty well," he said yesterday. "I;m anxious to see how well they...
...search of her long-lost American father, retired Rear Admiral Jack Tate, and soon married an airline pilot, has signed a five-year contract to advertise cosmetics put out by Alexandra de Markoff, a division of Lanvin. The company reckoned that her name and chiseled cheekbones fit the de Markoff image. Victoria, who has caught on i quickly to the ways of the consumer society, claims a lifelong interest in cosmetics. "As a child, I would make up my dolls, but they always came out looking terrible." Will her personality come across, as she hopes, in the new de Markoff...