Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from abroad, but they no longer argue for tariffs in general. And their tone has changed: in hearings before the Ways and Means Committee this year, they sounded rather plaintive and apologetic. Many pleaders for particular protection even felt constrained to tell the committee that in principle they favored freer trade and agreed with the purposes of the bill...
...Park painted a figurative picture called Kids on Bikes. "In immersing myself in subject matter," he said, have found that I paint with more intensity and that the 'hows' of painting are more inevitably determined by the 'whats.' I believe that my work has become freer of arbitrary mannerisms...
...factor in taking steam out of the bill's opposition is that President Kennedy, master of the political "art of the possible," has mixed his freer-trade pigments with some protectionist coloration. He placated the textile industry, which can influence many a member of Congress, by negotiating a web of "voluntary" quotas on foreign textile exports to the U.S.-and the new trade bill, bold in its thrust against tariffs, conspicuously fails to make any dent in quotas or other nontariff trade restrictions...
...brought in as chairman and president a hustling and autocratic executive named John L. McGara. McGara, 51, who had made his name by merging a complex of plate steel and boiler equipment suppliers into Buffalo's Adsco Industries, abolished Yuba's monthly board meeting to give himself freer rein. He ruthlessly dismissed old Yuba hands who questioned his policies. The directors didn't mind, because McGara promised that with his kind of leadership Yuba would do "in two or three years what it took other companies ten or 20 years...
...naval base in San Diego, the cry goes up: "Let's go down below," or "Let's bug out to T.J." Soon battalions of fuzzy-faced young servicemen are headed across the Mexican border, where the horses run more often, the booze flows freer, and the ladies take off their clothes at the slightest pretext. Since World War II, when...