Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time for a Fix. Finally, the crescendo of bargaining-table bluff, bravado and compromise came to an end. U.S. Chief Negotiator William M. Roth said in Washington, while Deputy W. Michael Blumenthal handled the signing, that under the new deal the industrial nations of the Kennedy Round would come out pretty much "in balance." The Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other...
...some time before businessmen can get an accurate fix on how individual industries and companies come off under the new rules. Negotiator Roth's Washington office has set up a special phone number (202-395-3044) for specifics on the new U.S. duties, which cover imports worth $8 billion a year. But details on the revised tariffs of each of the 49 Kennedy Round nations, which affect $40 billion in annual trade, may be some time in getting around: covering thousands of farm and factory items in painstaking detail, the entire list runs to 4,000 pages...
...finale, the volcano blows its stack. Alas, the effects are ineffective. The outer-space sequences would be more appropriate in a grade school educational short entitled Our Amazing Universe, and the volcanic climax is a series of clumsy process shots that no one took the trouble to fix...
...address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only solved another mystery. He had given the car to a mechanic to fix weeks before, and the mechanic had disappeared with...
...Harlan and his three colleagues, quite the opposite was true in the Butts case. Harlan pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview...