Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone checked out a book...
...nations retain trade barriers stiffer than those of the U.S., the Kennedy Administration foresees no major surge in U.S. exports-unless tariffs can be slashed throughout the free world. Agreeing with this viewpoint, the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week resoundingly endorsed the President's drive for freer world trade...
...Kennedy Administration had long since made it clear that its major legislative ambition for 1962 would be to achieve a new program on trade and tariffs, designed to give U.S. industry freer access to the burgeoning six-nation European Common Market. In his State of the Union message, the President said he would request a "bold new instrument" to reshape U.S. trade policy and meet the demands of a changing international economy. Last week he did just that, sending up to Capitol Hill a fat, 52-page proposed Trade Expansion Act of 1962 designed "to promote the general welfare, foreign...
Predictably enough, most opponents of freer trade speak for industries already suffering from imports. Examples...
...Strings. But for all the militancy of such protests, U.S. business in general has clearly undergone a historic change of heart since World War II. Most U.S. businessmen now see more opportunity than danger in freer trade. Even in industries clamoring for protection, a concern for the U.S. world position produces some moderating voices. Says Chairman Spencer Love of Burlington Industries, the nation's largest textile producer: "If we get into a tariff reduction program and it doesn't work out, that will be the time to do something about...