Word: items
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list includes wine (the biggest import item, about $22 million worth), brandy, Roquefort cheese and flower bulbs, but it leans heavily on merchandise made in West Germany, the chief market for U.S. chicken exports before the higher tariff. If they are retained on the list, trucks and buses (aimed at Volkswagen), stainless steel netting, electric razors, flat steel wire, scissors and shears will all be slapped with higher tariffs. The U.S. strategy: to show that it means business and to cut sufficiently into export sales of German industrialists so that they will be roused to oppose the powerful German farm...
...Senate approved the bill after rejecting a move by Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R.Neb.) to strike the Research Center item from the space budget. The 45-21 vote followed party lines, although two Democrats, Sens. Frank Lausche of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin, voted against the Center...
...liberals attacked a $44 million item in the space budget for research and development of communications satellites. While conceding the need for such research, they termed total government financing of the research a "gives way" to the corporation...
...famous Journal, Delacroix records a number of love affairs, but the only one that lasted was with his "exigent mistress," painting. Wherever he looked-into an overcast sky, at a news item about a Turkish massacre, into the fragile face of his friend Chopin, or even into his own mirror-he saw things that addressed themselves "to the most intimate part of the soul." He was an expert draftsman who told his students, "If you are not clever enough to do a sketch of a man throwing himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall...
When competing against China, neither country can afford to follow Gandi's philosophy of hastening slowly, he said. They must "hasten with haste." This cannot be done while the largest item in the budget is for defense...