Word: granted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rumania, of course, has been a sharp increase in trade with the West -up 25% in the past four years. It was on this subject that Ceausescu became quite specific: he is eager for Rumania to gain most-favored-nation trading status in the U.S. Congress alone can grant such status (Yugoslavia and Poland are the only Eastern European nations that now have it), and legislators may be reluctant to add Rumania so long as Bucharest continues to be a chief supplier of goods to North Viet...
...bring the ferry out at any time in response to any kind of emergency. A sign is visible for anyone to see, and the cost is only slightly higher than during regular hours (500 per passenger v. 150). "We come out after midnight for any legitimate reason," says Gared Grant, the ferry operator. "It doesn't have to be a case of accident or injury. Our contract with the town of Edgartown requires us to respond to calls after midnight." There is, however, one hitch. When a caller asks for special ferry service, the telephone operator routinely switches...
...foreign businessmen would help considerably to ease inflation. But he and other leaders plead for more time to strengthen companies against aggressive foreign rivals-and time to squeeze the necessary decisions out of the consensus system. Japan's exasperated trading partners are no longer in any mood to grant that time. For instance, Japanese companies do not invest much in research, but instead rely largely on buying foreign technology. U.S. companies, in particular, no longer want only to sell technology. They want in on the Japanese market...
...history of capitalism has given to Luck 2:49. Christ, having been reprimanded by his parents for I must be about my Father's business?" A Catholic priest, spiritual consultant to Brennan's employer (each Bible salesman begin his talk wit "I'm from the church"), exhorts God to grant these good men "an abundant harvest." A salesman stands up and, an affirmation of fait, declares before the assembled conference (moral witnesses all), "I expect6 to make $35,000 next year." Applause. "Yeah, well, I expect to make $50,000." More applause...
Silicon Gas. Everyone is aware that Presidents Grant and Eisenhower passed through the Point, but there were also artists, scientists and businessmen. George Goethals built the Panama Canal, Henry du Pont became an industrialist, and Robert Wood became president of Sears, Roebuck. Edgar Allan Poe, on the other hand, was court-martialed for "gross neglect of duty," and James Whistler failed his chemistry exam. "If silicon were a gas," he said later, "I would be a major general today...