Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more of the people. The Christian church must be an indigenous thing, or it will be rejected as a foreign faith...
Life with Father. While tops in a science that is thick with foreign accents, Jim Van Allen is about as American as a man can be. Born in 1914 at Mount Pleasant, a county-seat town in southeastern Iowa, he was the second son of a successful lawyer. Alfred Van Allen, whose Dutch ancestors came to the U.S. soon after the Revolution. His mother was raised on an Iowa farm...
...effect of this artificially high base, says Balderston, is that it crimps U.S. competition abroad (see Foreign Competition) and causes job losses at home. "The recent behavior of prices suggests that American firms have not improved their ability to compete at home or abroad. You hear of business being lost to foreign firms. This should give us cause to ponder, particularly about losses in lines where we have traditionally had an advantage. And firms can price themselves out of domestic markets, too. This should lead us to question whether job opportunities would not be greater if some prices were lower...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...
...price. Five years ago U.S. auto exports were five times imports; today imports are nearly four times exports. Other consumer industries, ranging from fishing tackle and electric clocks to cameras, transistor radios, and generators are also running into stiff competition because the U.S. manufacturer cannot match the foreign seller, for reasons ranging from price to quality and delivery terms...