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...briskly growing air-travel market. The IATA carriers' revenues totaled $39.1 billion in 1977, and are expected to climb another 10% this year. But without IATA to coordinate international fare agreements, many lines and their governments will probably become entangled in complicated bilateral and multilateral negotiations to fix prices and frills...
Thereupon, O'Neill and Majority Leader James Wright of Texas moved in. They played on Sisk's reluctance to be seen as the man who killed the energy bill and promised to fix problems of water reclamation and supply in his district. When the vote was taken again on Friday, it was 9 to 5 in favor of a single bill, with Sisk voting in the majority and two other Representatives in effect abstaining. A few hours later, the House went along with the committee by the narrowest of margins...
...government had warned the Americans not to expect quick results. Yet the very fact that the mission was invited to Japan raised hopes that the barriers of high tariffs, endless import-icense red tape and discriminatory quotas were being lowered. The experience of the U.S. visitors was sobering. Quick fix trade deals like the one negotiated last January between the U.S. and Japan and whirlwind tours of businessmen are no way to solve the critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only give...
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...there is any fault to be found with The Big Fix, it lies in the fact that the former radicals the detective turns up are leading lives rather too close to the center of present-day action. However attractive the purloined-letter (or plain-sight) theory of hiding the object everyone seeks, a viewer may doubt that once famed politicals could work without being recognized in positions as prominent as the ones Moses finds them...