Word: harold
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...sugar industry has been given some of the U.S.'s sweetest deals. For 40 years cane and beet growers were shielded by import quotas that not only helped keep domestic prices at twice the world level, but also fostered corruption and bribery and made Congressmen like the late Harold Cooley, Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, virtual Secretaries of State for Sugar...
...other side, speakers argued that the Government's concern ought not to be bigness per se, but whether corporate giants are efficient and whether competition flourishes in their industries. U.C.L.A. Economist Harold Demsetz said that despite the rise of conglomerates, there has not been much change in market concentration in 70 years, "and those increases in concentration that have occurred have been associated with lower prices and increases in efficiency." Yale Economist Paul MacAvoy reported that his own research shows that conglomerate mergers do not produce more concentration in specific markets but do tend to produce gains in efficiency...
However, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, his deputy, David Aaron, and Carter himself were all dissatisfied with the Vladivostok accord. Its subceiling of 1,320 multiple-warhead launchers allowed the two sides "freedom to mix" land-based and submarine-launched MlRVed missiles. The Soviets could concentrate their MIRV force on land, where
...negotiators drew out their final round over three meetings. At their last meeting on Monday, Vance told Dobrynin the U.S. was willing to relinquish the option of seven warheads on the Minuteman?an option the Pentagon had no intention of exercising anyway. Shortly afterward, Vance telephoned Harold Brown and asked him to order the Air Force to remove the shelters at Malmstrom. Soon after that, the two Secretaries met at the White House to announce the agreement...
...Harold Brown felt that any meaningful counting rule must apply retroactively to D-and-P. In other words, the Soviets would have to agree to count all the silos there under the U.S.-proposed subceiling for MIRVed ICBMS. Warnke and Brown got into a debate on the issue at a meeting of the Special Coordination Committee...